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| Huh? Dump Our Wastewater Where? By: James Clark A local businessman says other cities would be grateful if we would dump our wastewater into their main water supply. Our main water supply is on the verge of failure and every day we Lubbockites throw away 20 million gallons of water. Every day the city treats and disposes of 20 million gallons of water. Some of it is discharged into a stream but most of it is applied to the wastewater application farm site east of Lubbock. Local businessman Byron Cowling has started lobbying city council to do something more constructive with Lubbock’s partially treated wastewater. “And the wastewater here in Lubbock can be run 24 miles over by Petersburg. [It] can be dropped off into a Craw Fish draw. Now, from there it can run down hill approximately 40 miles, 38 to 40 miles.” That puts into the White River lake, and gives mother nature 40 miles to purify the water for us. Cowling says, “My thoughts are not to connect one reservoir but three reservoirs. White River is there. It’s built. The pipeline from White River to the Post Reservoir is in negotiations to be done.” There could also be a pipeline from the proposed Lake Post to the Lake Alan Henry Pipeline. In your minds’ eye try to see this as like a wagon wheel of water always turning clockwise. It goes from Lubbock to Petersburg, to White River Lake, to Lake Post, then to the Lake Alan Henry pipeline system and back to Lubbock. “For minimal money we can capture this wastewater today instead of waiting, letting all the water run down stream past the Post Reservoir,” says Cowling. We wanted to know if this is a crazy idea. So we called City councilman elect Paul R. Bean. “I don’t think it’s a crazy idea. I’d like to know about it. ” Beane says the Bryon Cowling plan would take just as much planning and due diligence as the Canyon Lakes proposal. So this is no quick fix. “But we can’t have too many ideas floating around out there how to solve our water problem,” says Beane Story Posted: Thu Jun 12 06:30:00 CDT 2008 Created: Thu Jun 12 04:58:03 CDT 2008 BACK TO HOME/NEWS Top Story • Lubbock tax bill going up Lubbock News & Lbk County • Tech fans face parking challenges • Seat belts required in school buses • Apartment fire injures one Weather • Thursday Forecast Business • AM Business Notebook Around Texas • Cornyn Comments On Obama's Iraq War Remarks • Fire Warning For Hunters As Dove Season Kicks Off • Boy Dies Of Rare Infection From Water • Austin Headlines • Dallas Headlines • Houston Headlines • San Antonio Headlines Swap Shop • Swap Shop Update This Day In History • Today Marks Formal End Of World War Two • Today In History Birthdays • Today's Birthdays Entertainment • Tonight's TV Off Beat News Of The Day • Middle School Student Arrested Over Facebook Threats Health Beat • New North American Lutheran Church Launched • New Study Doesn't Bode Well For Abbott Diet Drug Religion Today • New North American Lutheran Church Launched • Al-Qaeda Leader Calls For Killing Christians Sports • Sports Shorts |
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