[Vision2020] Aquifer rejuvenation (was: plowing)

[Craine Kit]

Given the toxic stuff that runs off the street, including snow-melt  
chemicals, gas, oil, and anti-freeze, I wouldn't want to drink the  
result or pay via taxes to purify it.

Kit Craine





On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Kenneth Marcy wrote:

> 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
>
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