It has the beauty of the Hill Country land without being over the aquifer.
Quotes about aquifer (13 Quotes)
Once a watershed is past 30 percent (developed) it's gone, ... Critters and endangered species are important, but the main reason for protecting the Pinelands was to preserve water quality, the aquifer and the rivers and estuaries.
You can literally lose them. The pressure, the power to operate the springs is from the aquifer. If you draw it down too far, they're gone. It's not something that can come back. We don't know the science as far as how to make it come back.
It proposes to exploit the Carrizo Aquifer just as the Edwards Aquifer is being exploited. Because of the exploitation of the Carrizo and the Edwards, that plan puts the Guadalupe basin at risk and because of that unacceptable risk, I'm going to vote no on the plan.
We're way down on the low range of what people have estimated before. The recharge rate to the High Plains Aquifer is actually pretty darn small.
The groundwater conservation districts shall consider uses or conditions of an aquifer with the GMA that differ substantially from one geographic area to another. Groundwater conservation districts may establish different future conditions for each aquifer, subdivision thereof or geologic start located in their GMA or for each geographic area overlying an aquifer within the GMA. Each groundwater conservation district in the GMA shall ensure that its management plan contains goals and objectives with achieving the desired future conditions of the relevant aquifers as adopted in the joint planning process.
That's what our problem is. We haven't had anyone step up and take the initiative to assume the responsibility for the management of that type of thing. The water board has agreed to take on the responsibility, but it will be costly. We're just in that process of trying to get an aquifer manager to do that.
It's primarily for aquifer protection. The secondary reason is the majority of our systems were put in about 30 or 40 years ago, so they're all coming of the age that they're going to be replaced. So rather then do each individual one, going to a central one is probably more prudent.
According to our analysis, we've pretty much reached the limit we can permit for new water out of the Biscayne Aquifer.
It basically describes everything that KBDJ has agreed to do on its land in order to keep the water and any pollution from seeping into the aquifer.
The plan is for the Savage Well to go back online some day. It's a fine aquifer.
What we take out today takes 30 to 100 years to replace back into the aquifer. You can use 10,000 to 20,000 gallons (of water) on even a small lot. Micro-irrigation uses about a 10th of that.
There is no real exploitable ground water down to the Riverton area. The aquifer there is less 'clayey' and more sandy, and you can develop wells there but none of the wells located in that region are used for domestic purposes. They are used for industrial purposes - cooling, washing down, etc.