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Tyler
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Salt On the Brain
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Can we just hope the extra salinity decreases the frequency of red tide?
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Rxfire wrote: | Hmmm....
Island Moon said desal plant at Harbor Is was dead...
but it was going to go somewhere near Ingleside/La Quinta?
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Like Becky mentioned, sorta.
The LaQuinta Channel project is still on track (they have an identified customer [Industrial] and a willing partner to go in for the power distribution costs).
The Harbor Island location suffered from no existing infrastructure, and little to no customer base for any of the produced water. All of the distribution infrastructure goes from the CC side of the Bay to San Pat County, and the Harbor Island location would have meant reversing that (on top of no power at the location).
The Inner Harbor one that made the City's 'Final List' uses the Nueces Bay Powerplant (in mothballs now) for a power source, and they have better options to tie into the distribution system.
Now, I'm not clamoring either way (yes, desal is coming, and should be and ought to be done correctly), I just know that I don't want to be one of those identified 'customers'. I haven't budgeted at this time for a 4X to 10X increase in my water bill.  |
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bulldog1935
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| that's going to happen even if the rivers and bays die first, simply because twice as many people will be competing over the same finite resource. |
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Shalor
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 7:45 am Post subject: |
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| I got the same letter listed earlier in this post. They said they preliminarily determined that it would not cause environmental damage to the water, more or less. Preliminarily? |
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Shalor
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| Cuts me off at two lines? Sometimes less? |
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captfrankie
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 3:45 pm Post subject: water |
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Not to exceed 95,000,000 gallons of water per day? Higher salinity will have an adverse effect on the start of the food chain. Shrimp and crabs thrive when we have good rain and freshwater runoff in the spring. Just my opinion on observations I've made in my 57 years living in this area. "We have not been go Stewards"
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Shalor
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| Harbor island... is that right by lighthouse lakes? I bet the kayak guys are going to love all that brine being pumped in next door. |
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Rxfire
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| If the water intake has to be 3 miles offshore to "avoid taking in fish larvae...", why can't the brine outflow be offshore (1 mile or 2 miles?), also? |
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bulldog1935
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: Approved Harbor Island Permit Public Mtg Apr 8 Aransas P |
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| bulldog1935 wrote: | they changed the date, I edited with new announcement
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updated with new meeting date - apr 8 |
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CopanoCruisin
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Just curious, isn't Baffin Bay hypersaline?...........cC |
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Speck Tackler
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2019 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| CopanoCruisin wrote: | | Just curious, isn't Baffin Bay hypersaline?...........cC |
And the desert is a great place to grow a cactus. An apple tree, not so much. |
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