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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Assuming you have a yard the cheapest and
easiest way to cut back water usage is to cut way back on watering the grass. When
I lived down there I cut back watering the grass to the point that the grass
was barely green and it did not grow fast enough to mow. If you do it right
you will not have the dead brown yard look but you will not have to mow either.
I had found that during the hottest days of summer that really I had to water
less than once a week and usually less than ĵ an inch total. I seeded my yard
each fall with various fescues including the <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State> fescue, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Festuca idahoensis</span></i> which is available at the UI (or at least
used to be). My seeding technique was simple, I just threw seed into my yard
(or let the kids do) in early fall and left it alone. My yard plan was based
on my simple principles of: I hate watering, I hate mowing, but I also hate dead
yards (the kids really complained and besides a dry dead yard is one heck of a
fire hazard). The other yard trick I used was to broadcast zeolites around the
yard. You can obtain zeolite for around $20 for a 50 pound bag at most
landscape businesses. Zeolite helps your yard through absorbing water and
ammonium into the mineral, grass will grow a fine root around the mineral and
slowly draw out what it needs. I am trying these same techniques up here in
North Pole and will know later this year if my cheap attempts at saving water
work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hope all is well,<br>
Chris Storhok <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Tom Ivie<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:06
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Other
topics-- was: Water. Where do you stand on theissue?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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 <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State>.
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? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<i><span style='font-style:italic'><! B>Nils Peterson
<nils_peterson@wsu.edu></span></i> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Decker and Chasuk have opened related discussions on economic and
population<br>
growth. Perhaps those are impossible to separate from the question of water,<br>
but I'd like to ask that someone else lead those discussions as new threads.<br>
<br>
We have several issues hanging out:<br>
* Marginal cost of new water resources<br>
* Fiscal impact of conservation on the City & water rates (fixed &
marginal<br>
costs)<br>
* Water budget, paying for new uses of water by conserving on current uses<br>
* Pressurized irrigation<br>
* East Moscow water treatment plant<br>
* And where to you stand: must conserve, painless conservation, don't<br>
conserve<br>
<br>
Plus a wiki page to compile our information<br>
<br>
<br>
On 4/24/06 11:06 PM, "Matt Decker" <MATTD2107@HOTMAIL.COM>wrote:<br>
<br>
> <br>
> Nils,<br>
> <br>
> I'm al! l ears. What would you suggest we do? Nils you said "Make
changes in<br>
> current policy and procedure that aim to conserve the<br>
>> aquifer by changing personal and collective behaviors".<br>
> I would open too consideration, without the anti growth aspect of it all.
If<br>
> we are going to continue to grow and have a future for our children here
in<br>
> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> <st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place> we need to figure out if A. We have a
water issue. B. how to<br>
> solve is reasonably. C. do it so we can maintain who we are as
Moscowanians.<br>
> <br>
> There should allways be growth. To ignore this(not saying you or others
are,<br>
> just stating) will be the day this town becomes haunted by ghosts.<br>
> <br>
> matt<br>
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Chasuk replied:<br>
On 4/24/06, Matt Decker <MATTD2107@HOTMAIL.COM>wrote:<br>
<br>
> If we are going to continue to grow and have a future for our children
here in<br>
> <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City><br>
<br>
I hope that this isn't a naive question. It certainly isn't meant<br>
disingen! uously. But here it is: why is growth important? A town<br>
isn't a corporation, in a business sense, so we don't have<br>
shareholders to pay or a CEO. Therefore, what is the benefit of<br>
growth? For myself, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
is the perfect size; that's why I live<br>
here (amongst other reasons).<br>
<br>
I guess I am anti-growth, if growth means increased congestion and<br>
more crime and more anonymity.<br>
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