<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>"Given the toxic stuff that runs off the street, including snow-melt <BR>chemicals, gas, oil, and anti-freeze, I wouldn't want to drink the <BR>result "--Kit Craine</DIV>
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<DIV>Yeah, but in all fairness it would probably improve the taste of the Moscow water. Here is a tidbit of trivia, water is not suppose to have a taste, bet you Moscow natives didn't know that!</DIV>
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<DIV>Stay Dry,</DIV>
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<DIV>Best Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 1/7/09, <SPAN>Craine</SPAN> Kit <I><kcraine@verizon.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Craine Kit <kcraine@verizon.net><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Aquifer rejuvenation (was: plowing)<BR>To: "Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1@verizon.net><BR>Cc: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 8:13 PM<BR><BR><PRE>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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