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no one cares ???
IP: 70.251.9.124 Oct 20, 07 - 12:42 AM |
No one cares about Big Spring tap water ?
I read a great post on the forum where someone was suspicious about Lake J.B. Thomas' wonderfully soft water being sold to oil field waterflood projects. Few people read it. Even fewer replied. I guess no one cares?  Heck, some may enjoy drinking the horse **** that comes out of the tap? |
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JE
IP: 68.94.153.151 Oct 20th, 2007 - 9:44 AM |
Re: No one cares about Big Spring tap water ?
I put in an RO system in my house. Cost me about 180$ and I did it myself. If anyone is interested I would certainly help them with the install. Drilling requires different weights and gravities of lubricants for different types of terrain. Selling freshwater for drilling isn't a new ordeal. |
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JE
IP: 68.94.153.151 Oct 20th, 2007 - 12:51 PM |
Re: No one cares about Big Spring tap water ?
Also they will inject wells to get the oil back online as well. As water TYPICALLY has a much lower gravity than oil and the oil will float on top of water. |
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IP: 70.243.103.77 Oct 20th, 2007 - 7:16 PM |
Re: No one cares about Big Spring tap water ?
JE, I think "no one cares" might believe that we would have far better water quality if more Lake Thomas water were used for potable water purposes. CRMWD was established, I think, to provide drinking water to Big Spring, Synder, and Odessa. To "no one cares": The gears of the CCC/ News of Big Spring do not always turn quickly. I will make a special appeal to the NoBS editorial board to pursue open records requests regarding the CRMWD issue. I can assure you that the CCC is busy with some very important projects. |
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JE
IP: 68.94.153.151 Oct 20th, 2007 - 7:35 PM |
Re: No one cares about Big Spring tap water ?
I'm not sure how much it would actually improve the taste and whatnot. From what I understand, the pipes in the city are what contribute to most of the ill repute of the water. |
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IP: 75.36.97.63 Oct 27th, 2007 - 1:34 AM |
Re: No one cares about Big Spring tap water ?
What was the previously mentioned great idea? To double the amount of Lake J.B. Thomas' water that is currently being used for BS's drinking water and see how that taste and test? See if that will kill a peach tree, too. Do it for a month or two. Then, double Lake Thomas' water in our tap water again!!! And see how that taste. Let's see if THAT will kill a vegetable garden or a fruit tree? THEN, make a decision !!! I have a feeling, though, that someone is going to reference some chart that sez it won't matter. Yessir, and cigarettes ain't bad for your health, either, Buddy, cuz I gotta chart that sez so. I think it would make a tremendous difference. Lake J.B.Thomas' water is supposed to be VERY low in chlorides or salts. I say, let the tongue decide! Are over a quarter million West Texans dinking corrosive salt brine out of our tap just so a few can flood some old stripper well fields? Interesting priorities, espcially since the original charter said drinking water had the priority over other uses. And especially interesting in that Beale's Creek has some of the saltiest water there is. Why not sell Beale's Creek water and keep Lake Thomas' water for drinking purposes? The water that naturally comes out of the oil well along with the oil is already salty to the point of being brackish. Why not use the salty water of Beale's Creek to flood oil wells, instead of clean drinking water? The water dept can sell water for a few cents per HUNDRED gallon. And instead of having good water, we're told, instead, to go buy RO water for 20 cents a gallon? Or install expensive home RO eq? When the taxpayers and voters already OWN the cleanest water in the State of Texas in Lake J.B. Thomas? That is like walking to work and everywhere else because Joe Bob's Stripper Well Co. needs your car. Surely someone knows how to ask CRMWD for info on how much water is used for our drinking water and how much goes to other usage? They know. They deal with it daily. Every single day someone has to decide how many gallons goes into the pipeline to City of BS's Water Treatment Plant, and how much goes off into the pipelines that lead to the stripper wells. They keep extensive records. I hear stripper wells make as much as 3 to 5 barrels of oil per month. I hope the guy who owns it sure enjoys that $. I know my kidneys are sure tired of being salt packed. 
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IP: 69.152.133.87 Oct 27th, 2007 - 7:22 AM |
Re: No one cares about Big Spring tap water ?
YES-YES-YES we care: dirty water: bureaucracy dirty word: bureaucracy year 1974 we could water the yards (it lived) year 1974 we could use BS water in our evap. coolers. no problem. year 1974 the water heaters lasted longer than 6yrs. HOW DO WE CHANGE BUREAUCRACY???????????? |
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IP: 70.246.65.34 Oct 27th, 2007 - 11:47 AM |
Re: No one cares about Big Spring tap water ?
The News of Big Spring [NoBS] committee will be apprised of this investigative report request in the near future. There is a way to get the information from CRMWD. It's called an "open records request." Here is a link http://www.splc.org/foiletter.asp to a fully automated, fill-in-the-blanks open records law request generator. An open records request letter is more than a request: it generally compels government agencies and authorities to produce information. If you don't do an open records request, you might not get all the information you are wanting. |
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