[Vision2020] Other topics-- was: Water. Where do you stand on theissue?

[Matt Decker]

Tom,

You had asked what can you do. Well I know yards and I can tell you; 1. 
Fertilize three times a year. Once in spring once in late may early June and 
once in October. This will establish a strong deep root system that will 
require less water.2.When watering(without a automatic sprinkler system) try 
to watch closely how long your sprinkler runs for. Also, water for short 
periods of time but often. The more you can keep your lawn damp in the root 
areas the better for the saturation of each watering, especially in clay 
areas.3. Jack that mower up a few inches. You would be surprised how much a 
longer lawn does without water compared to a shorter one, and you really 
can't tell the difference that  much. 4.Xeriscaping of the lawn is the new 
fad, which does save in watering. Im sure Ill think of some more later but I 
gotta run.

Matt


>From: Tom Ivie <the_ivies3 at yahoo.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Other topics-- was: Water. Where do you stand on 
>theissue?
>Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:06:15 -0700 (PDT)
>
>In regards to the last issue "where do you stand":  I want to conserve.  
>But it costs me more to conserve than I can afford.  The cheapest rain 
>barrel I can find is $100 plus shipping, I need at least 4 of them. I don't 
>have the money to purchase a new front load washer and would have a hard 
>time justifying it without an old broken one.  I can't afford to put in a 
>sprinkler system (I would love to have one).  Sure, I got a 3% increase in 
>pay this year, but my groceries, gasoline, clothing, health care insurance, 
>and basically all consumables have increased this year by more than 3%.  I 
>pay twice as much for water as my counter parts in southern Idaho.  And I 
>just found out I will have to pay out $4000 on braces for a child.  What do 
>you do? Where do you start?  I have low flush toilets and a water saver 
>shower head (you can get that shower head free from the city!).  What else 
>can I do?
>
>Nils Peterson <nils_peterson at wsu.edu> wrote:
>   Decker and Chasuk have opened related discussions on economic and 
>population
>growth. Perhaps those are impossible to separate from the question of 
>water,
>but I'd like to ask that someone else lead those discussions as new 
>threads.
>
>We have several issues hanging out:
>* Marginal cost of new water resources
>* Fiscal impact of conservation on the City & water rates (fixed & marginal
>costs)
>* Water budget, paying for new uses of water by conserving on current uses
>* Pressurized irrigation
>* East Moscow water treatment plant
>* And where to you stand: must conserve, painless conservation, don't
>conserve
>
>Plus a wiki page to compile our information
>
>
>On 4/24/06 11:06 PM, "Matt Decker" wrote:
>
> >
> > Nils,
> >
> > I'm all ears. What would you suggest we do? Nils you said "Make changes 
>in
> > current policy and procedure that aim to conserve the
> >> aquifer by changing personal and collective behaviors".
> > I would open too consideration, without the anti growth aspect of it 
>all. If
> > we are going to continue to grow and have a future for our children here 
>in
> > Moscow Idaho we need to figure out if A. We have a water issue. B. how 
>to
> > solve is reasonably. C. do it so we can maintain who we are as 
>Moscowanians.
> >
> > There should allways be growth. To ignore this(not saying you or others 
>are,
> > just stating) will be the day this town becomes haunted by ghosts.
> >
> > matt
>
>Chasuk replied:
>On 4/24/06, Matt Decker wrote:
>
> > If we are going to continue to grow and have a future for our children 
>here in
> > Moscow
>
>I hope that this isn't a naive question. It certainly isn't meant
>disingenuously. But here it is: why is growth important? A town
>isn't a corporation, in a business sense, so we don't have
>shareholders to pay or a CEO. Therefore, what is the benefit of
>growth? For myself, Moscow is the perfect size; that's why I live
>here (amongst other reasons).
>
>I guess I am anti-growth, if growth means increased congestion and
>more crime and more anonymity.
>
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