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re: Louisiana Is Running Dangerously Short Of Groundwater
Posted on 3/20/21 at 12:01 pm to Bigfishchoupique
Posted on 3/20/21 at 12:01 pm to Bigfishchoupique
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cheesedick water diversion projects.
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Posted on 3/20/21 at 12:09 pm to jimmy the leg
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Again, it begs the question, why are we not using (at least a portion) the Mississippi River overflow to reinvigorate our aquifers?
Pumping untreated water into naturally filtered and uncontaminated aquifers sounds like a bad idea. Might as well just use surface water.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 12:13 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
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Again, it begs the question, why are we not using (at least a portion) the Mississippi River overflow to reinvigorate our aquifers?
Because it's illegal. Large industrial wells even require huge backflow preventers to keep surface water out of the aquifers.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 12:40 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
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Pumping untreated water into naturally filtered and uncontaminated aquifers sounds like a bad idea.
Agreed, but not what I originally suggested.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 12:42 pm to Nawlens Gator
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Because it's illegal. Large industrial wells even require huge backflow preventers to keep surface water out of the aquifers.
Which begs the question...why aren’t we looking into possibly legit solutions as opposed to being steadfast to current legislation?
Posted on 3/20/21 at 12:46 pm to Bigfishchoupique
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Study how aquifers charge. It been a long time for me but when it was laid out to me it made sense.
This is what made me think in those terms.
Recharging an aquifer
Posted on 3/20/21 at 1:13 pm to jimmy the leg
Why would we treat surface water then stick it in the ground?
Posted on 3/20/21 at 3:12 pm to jimbeam
My take was focusing on “excess“ surface water...collected into a newly created reservoir, treated, and then injected into the porous layers to be absorbed over time. In short, spring flood waters.
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Why would we treat surface water then stick it in the ground?
To replenish the aquifers?
Posted on 3/20/21 at 4:00 pm to LoneStar23
Trash propaganda trash. Louisiana will run out of dirt before it runs out of water.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 4:15 pm to SlowFlowPro
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yeah i'm curious about this one, myself.
Quite a bit runs off. Eventually Louisiana farmers will need to go the way of midwest farms and begin installing tile under their fields.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 4:28 pm to geauxbrown
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Quite a bit runs off. Eventually Louisiana farmers will need to go the way of midwest farms and begin installing tile under their fields.
What? What makes you believe that will "eventually" be a need? Drainage is already one of the biggest issues for Louisiana agricultural producers. If tile drains were a realistic solution, it would have already been done.
And guess what, in some places, it has been. But most producers are addressing drainage through other methods.
Posted on 3/22/21 at 7:32 am to wadewilson
If all the plants along the Miss River aren't using river water already, they should be.
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