Niagara Bottling Permit Consideration Scheduled for August 12

[sskasser]

http://www.sjrwmd.com/newsreleases/2008/nr08-062.html

http://www.sjrwmd.com/niagrabottlingpermit/pdfs/niagrabottling_TSR.pdf

[sskasser]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/niagara-permit-approved-092509,0,3581766.story

[Tegg]

another nail in the coffin of making water a scarce resource....

[Rich]

another nail in the coffin of making water a scarce resource....

Sad, isn't it.....

Safe diving,

Rich

P.S. Reminds me of a "Pearls before Swine" t-shirt that my friend Ron has that says "people are stupid and I hate them"..... ;)

[cavemark]

That's actually not as much water as you might think. I just recently did two Water Use Permit renewals:

One was for a farm with 200 acres of pasture/hay fields and 120 head of cattle and it was almost the same permitted withdrawal.

The other was for a fairgrounds that is allowed to pump 25,000 gallons per day in the peak month and that is only one of the wells on the property.

The permitted quantity for Niagra is approximately the equivalent of 10 minutes of flow from a first magnitude spring (100cfs).

Please don't think that I like the way our aquifer is being depleted. I wish there were a way to make sure that the withdrawals were consumed in state instead of shipping it out of state. Farms and local consumption at least have a chance to make it back to the aquifer. Not much of what Niagra pumps will stay in state and also doesn't do much for the Florida economy.

Mark