<DIV>Tom,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Great point. As along as you extensively filter the Moscow water supply before it touches your skin, you have no problems. Except of course for the inside of your pipes or if you happen to be thirsty and only a public drinking fountain is available.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>How do you filter the water that washes your clothes? I find Moscow water ruins my clothes. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan<BR><BR><B><I>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)" name=Generator> <STYLE> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </STYLE> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
/><o:SmartTagType name="State" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="PlaceType" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="PlaceName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType> <STYLE> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </STYLE> <STYLE> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:Arial; color:navy;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </STYLE> <DIV class=Section1> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Exactly, Mr. Solomon –<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Granted. The water here in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> is not of the same quality as the spring water available in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Silver</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. This is why I filter all water I use here in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>, whether the water is used for cooking, ice water, coffee, etc. etc. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I personally use both a Brita-filtered reservoir and a Brita-filtered pitcher. As a result I have no problems with <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>
water.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As such, and as you suggest, the problem is not in the quality of water as much as it is the quantity of water.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."<BR><BR>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=navy><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"> </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <HR tabIndex=-1 align=center
width="100%" SIZE=2> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Mark Solomon<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, April 14, 2007 6:25 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Donovan Arnold; Sunil Ramalingam; vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] water development</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></DIV></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
12pt">Donovan,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Maybe you missed the quotation marks around "new water". We can talk about water quality but that is a separate issue from water quantity. All <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> water meets Safe Drinking Act quality standards. The water derived from the upper aquifer, which now constitutes 30% of the city supply (and supplied 100% of the supply from the city's founding through 1960) is heavily mineralized with iron and zinc. If your water tastes foul however, it is likely not the water itself but either iron bacteria that have colonized your plumbing or chlorine used to treat the water. Different parts of the city have water that has different proportions
of upper and deep aquifer waters depending on their proximity to different wells, different water towers/reservoirs and piping connecting it all. Either one is filterable with a low cost/low maintenance filter readily available at most local plumbing shops and installable with little to no tools depending on how accessible your pipes are.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">m.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">At 6:13 PM -0700 4/14/07, Donovan Arnold wrote:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE
style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" cite="" type="cite"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Mark,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" cite="" type="cite"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" cite="" type="cite"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Conservation doesn't create new water. It simply conserves what we have. Your suggestions do not A) Supply us with more water or B) Solve the problem of having low quality, foul tasting, smelling water that ruins our clothes and plumbing.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" cite="" type="cite"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" cite="" type="cite"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The revenue of clay extraction over the course of 25-100 years would most likely cover the costs of building a water line 50 miles. We have a century or two solve this problem, isn't in crisis mode yet. Let industry develop a little first.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" cite="" type="cite"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" cite="" type="cite"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
12pt">Best,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" cite="" type="cite"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" cite="" type="cite"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Donovan<BR><BR><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">Mark Solomon <msolomon@moscow.com></SPAN></I></B> wrote:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I don't know about <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>, but the Nez Perce Tribe might have<BR>something significant to say as those are waters covered under their<BR>settlement with the state. A more probable but still highly unlikely<BR>source would
be the N. Fk of the Palouse above <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Laird</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Unlikely<BR>because of the cost of a pipeline, diversion structure, pump station<BR>(to get around/over <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Moscow</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mountain</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<BR><BR>Conservation is still the cheapest source of "new water". As I've<BR>discussed here previously, new development could fund conservation<BR>implementation to offset a development's water demand. Simple<BR>balancing of the water checkbook.<BR><BR>m.<BR><BR>At 4:43 PM -0700 4/14/07, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:<BR>>Thanks, Mark.<BR>><BR>>I also wonder that if money were available for such a project,<BR>>setting aside any environmental concerns, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> would be able to<BR>>appropriate <st1:place
w:st="on">Clearwater River</st1:place> water. Wouldn't <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State> users<BR>>downstream have superior claims that would make such a project<BR>>difficult?<BR>><BR>>Sunil<BR>><BR>>>From: Mark Solomon<BR>>>To: Donovan Arnold , Sunil<BR>>>Ramalingam , vision2020@moscow.com<BR>>>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] water development<BR>>>Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:01:11 -0700<BR>>><BR>>>Sunil is referring to the study done by the Army Corps of Engineers<BR>>>sometime way back when that looked at the Palouse, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Clearwater</st1:place></st1:City> and<BR>>>Snake Rivers as possible water sources for <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>. Even back then<BR>>>(1974 I think) the energy costs of pumping water uphill to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City><BR>>>were prohibitive. The only person I know who has an actual copy of<BR>>>the study is Joel Hamilton. There is likely one in the UI library.<BR>>><BR>>>m.<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>http://www.fsr.net<BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" cite="" type="cite"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt" cite="" type="cite"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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