[Homestead] Wastewater costs 340 times Colorado River water

Don Bowen don.bowen at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 31 18:54:52 EST 2006


At 10/31/2006, you wrote:
>It makes no sense to me to use potable water to irrigate golf courses
>in a desert area. But, then, it doesn't make sense to me to grow lawns
>in the desert, so that may only serve to show how out of step I am
>with the rest of the world! :-)

During the Cedar Fire three years ago, a group of houses along a ridge 
burned because there was no water.  At one time the area had several deep 
wells that supplied more than enough water for the horse and cattle ranches 
in the area.  Then the indians built a casino and bored several 
wells.  Still there was enough water, not as much but enough.  They the 
indians built a huge resort with a huge golf course.  They drilled several 
more wells and the wells on the ridge went dry as well as several of the 
expensive new wells.  Now those deeper wells are starting to run dry so 
they are trying to push through some obscure rules that will give them 
access to a San Diego City reservoir



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