Oh, nevermind.
Posted on 10/16/2005 4:47:06 PM PDT by blam
May be a source of fresh water for southern California farmers?
I love it-- absolutely no mention of HM. Ahhhhhhh. Interesting, too.
Quite interesting.
There are underground rivers. The flow rate is low, although the volume may be large. Any such rivers in California would supplement surface runoff from the Sierra Nevada. That might suffice for a few small towns or farms, but California will have to look to desalinization as their usage gets heavier.
Possibly Pingworthy? (considering the first paragraph)
They need it, for ever gallon of strawberries, it takes two gallons to quench the thirst of the manual laborers and their families, since California farmers have no incentive to innovatively mechanize .
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That's what first got my attention, lol. Not GGG Ping worthy though.
There are a couple of almost bottomless holes of fresh water near Santa Rosa, New Mexico and there is rumors that the bodies of some who drowned in those holes were a long time later recovered from the Gulf of Mexico.
No refrences to post and I no longer remember who said it, but I did hear it once upon a time.
No it's not. It's also not been sucking cash out of our pockets to feed the brain of a lonely scientists' quest for glory either, thank you very much.
The reason Florida is the hot spot for this reasearch is that the entire state sits on a fresh water aquifer and the flows and directions of these have been charted, tested and controlled for the past 65 years. The quest for tax dollars to fund research always kicks off with a pointless argument, adds nice pictures and points to a mystery. But this isn't reasearch to find or create fresh drinking water or suck water from where it doesn't exist. It looks like it's just reasearch for the sake of research.
There is a fresh water lake near Pascagoula, Miss. with similar rumors. It rises and falls with the tides too.
No way.
The federill government is more likely to consider such streams critical to habitat and breeding. These streams would thus be a way to regulate the use of private wells that might draw off the water source. Can't harm the ocean ya know, that belongs to the whole earth. ;-)
_I_ haven't heard of any; but who knows? <shrug>
Bottomless Lakes State Park, NM ?
http://www.lasr.net/pages/lake.php?Lake_ID=NM05lk001
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Keith Brackpool, British CEO of Cadiz Inc., tried to sell a deal in which he would store water from the Colorado River, during wet years, in a fresh water aquifer in the Mojave Desert which would then be pumped to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in dry years. They already owned the desert land.
Opponents claimed there was no way to determine how much pumping from the aquifer would be too much, drying up springs and wells.
He was smart enough to give a quarter million dollars to Gray Davis but the deal soured when he couldn't win over Dianne Feinstein who has made desert protection a hallmark of her career in the senate. The Water District narrowly voted down the proposal.
You know what they say out west - "Whiskey's for drinking, water's for fight'n."
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