[Vision2020] Aquifer rejuvenation (was: plowing)

[Kenneth Marcy]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 12:08:14 Bev Bafus wrote:
> Maybe I'm just obtuse, but I fail to see how taking the time to plow the
> snow BACK onto the main streets helps anything, except make tempers rise.

I don't know whether or not it's acute, but investigating how to turn our snow 
abundance into an aquifer rejuvenation program (more than it already is) by 
trucking the snow collected from the streets to a local injection point, 
melting it, and pumping it back into the aquifer seems to me an activity 
worth some consideration to determine its feasibility.

> Why not use the plow time to clear lanes that are still blocked?

Using plow time to collect snow into container vehicles that could be used to 
transport, melt, and inject the resulting water into the local aquifer sounds 
like a classic conservation and reuse program, if it could be implemented 
with some operating costs and some, but not excessive, capital expenditures 
over a reasonable number of equipment depreciation years.


Ken