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<div>Donovan,</div>
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<div>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 Moscow 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.</div>
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<div>m.</div>
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<div>At 6:13 PM -0700 4/14/07, Donovan Arnold wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Mark,</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>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.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>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.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Best,</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Donovan<br>
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<i><b>Mark Solomon <msolomon@moscow.com></b></i> wrote:<br>
<blockquote>I don't know about Washington, 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 Laird Park.
Unlikely<br>
because of the cost of a pipeline, diversion structure, pump
station<br>
(to get around/over Moscow Mountain.<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>
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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, Moscow would be able
to<br>
>appropriate Clearwater River water. Wouldn't Washington 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, Clearwater
and<br>
>>Snake Rivers as possible water sources for Moscow. Even back
then<br>
>>(1974 I think) the energy costs of pumping water uphill to
Moscow<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>
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