dinks said:Check out today's Maryland Independent. If we start having water shortages, not only will that affect our quality of life but it will also cause property values to tank!!!!
I've read several articles on the subject, basically at the rate the tri-county area is building and tapping into the aquaducts... we (tri-county) area may very well be dry by 2030.Lenny said:My Independent was very late this AM. I'll have to wait until this evening to read it. Are they predicting doom-and-gloom again?
Who cares, I'll be dead by 2030.kwillia said:I've read several articles on the subject, basically at the rate the tri-county area is building and tapping into the aquaducts... we (tri-county) area may very well be dry by 2030.
I have to ask - how does an area go dry when it's surrounded by water?kwillia said:I've read several articles on the subject, basically at the rate the tri-county area is building and tapping into the aquaducts... we (tri-county) area may very well be dry by 2030.
Only water that builds up the water table comes from rain, from what I've read. It took all of last year to get the water table back up from the drought a couple years ago.vraiblonde said:I have to ask - how does an area go dry when it's surrounded by water?
I'm being serious - I don't know how this stuff works.
Got a deep well. Goes down about 400 ft. I don't worry much about running out of water.Ken King said:Let the aquaducts go dry, as long as it isn't the aquifers that dry up.
Even if the aquifers were to dry up it seems that shallow ground water wells could still provide a lot of water unless we get into a heavy drought period.
Sorry for using the wrong word, Ken... I am talking about the aquifiers.Ken King said:Let the aquaducts go dry, as long as it isn't the aquifers that dry up.
Even if the aquifers were to dry up it seems that shallow ground water wells could still provide a lot of water unless we get into a heavy drought period.
You share the same water with the rest of us... including those in the bazillion housing projects that are being built left and right. A given farm that used to have one farm house tapping in, now has several hundred houses tapping in... multiply that by each farm you've seen sold for housing construction.Vince said:Got a deep well. Goes down about 400 ft. I don't worry much about running out of water.
That is the same aquifer that most of the tri-county area uses, so worry. It is the Cumberland stream.Vince said:Got a deep well. Goes down about 400 ft. I don't worry much about running out of water.
kwillia said:It even has purty pictures...
The study revealed that St. Mary’s County will have to depend more on wells in the Upper Patapsco aquifer. Water levels in the Aquia and Piney Point aquifers are depleting and if used at the current rate deeper wells will have to be dug to access the water -- deeper wells are less energy efficient.
According to the study the Aquia aquifer has declined from two feet below sea level in the 1970s to its current depth of 180 feet below sea level. The Upper Patapsco aquifer in the Lexington Park area has decreased from 10 feet below sea level in the 1980s to 40 feet below sea level currently.
Try to get the developers or politicians to realize that and stop development. Not slow it down. STOP!!!!jazz lady said:St. Mary's Today had an article about this:
http://www.stmarystoday.com/water_ok_through_2030.htm
We're using way more water than this area's aquafiers can sustain for long.
The coffers of local government run on development. More houses = more taxes = more budget. They are not going to halt or even slow development down based on a bunch of chicken littles saying the sky is falling (or in this case, the wells are running dry).2ndAmendment said:Try to get the developers or politicians to realize that and stop development. Not slow it down. STOP!!!!
Time to find a place upstream.
The sky may not be falling but the falling aquifer tables can be proven. There was a lot of concern over the aquifers when the Japanese wanted to build the eel processing plant in St.Mary's. I don't know if it was built. I think it was. They were going to use some enormous amount of water every day.jazz lady said:The coffers of local government run on development. More houses = more taxes = more budget. They are not going to halt or even slow development down based on a bunch of chicken littles saying the sky is falling (or in this case, the wells are running dry).