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Posted: 8/9/2011 4:12:48 PM EDT
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wow! That is insane! Hopefully we some some good tropical depressions this year to replenish everything!
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Posted: 8/9/2011 5:05:52 PM EDT
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How's LBJ?
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Posted: 8/9/2011 5:43:28 PM EDT
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2012? This could be that thing we have all wondered about. How would next year be If we didn't get any rain this winter? Something to think about
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Posted: 8/9/2011 6:09:13 PM EDT
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Looks like we need to take water conservation a little more seriously.
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Posted: 8/9/2011 6:31:50 PM EDT
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Well, I just read that Big Spring is going to start blending thier treated poo poo water with fresh water. I hope they filter out the peanuts and corn.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/09/desperate-times-desperate-measures-drought-stricken-texas-town-to-recycle-urine/ |
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Posted: 8/9/2011 7:00:45 PM EDT
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Well, I just read that Big Spring is going to start blending thier treated poo poo water with fresh water. I hope they filter out the peanuts and corn. http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/09/desperate-times-desperate-measures-drought-stricken-texas-town-to-recycle-urine/ 
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Posted: 8/9/2011 7:03:52 PM EDT
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Well, I just read that Big Spring is going to start blending thier treated poo poo water with fresh water. I hope they filter out the peanuts and corn. http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/09/desperate-times-desperate-measures-drought-stricken-texas-town-to-recycle-urine/ Haveing worked in the field of water and waste water treatment there are certain citys I would rather drink the out flow water rather than the "tap" water. Some of the shit these people put in the water  I'm glad I have a well on my prop.
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Posted: 8/9/2011 7:19:15 PM EDT
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Just went over to our property line today to check on the lake/large tank next door. It was low a few weeks ago, today...gone. Nothing there, giant dry lake bed. Will get pics tomorrow. Problem is, now all his cattle now will be drinking out of our lake, which is our only water source for humans and horses.
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Posted: 8/9/2011 7:36:52 PM EDT
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Got to be taking a heavy toll on wildlife.
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Posted: 8/9/2011 8:19:16 PM EDT
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id always imagine clean fresh water will likely run out before oil.
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Posted: 8/10/2011 4:27:06 AM EDT
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What are the buildings along the river?
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Posted: 8/10/2011 4:51:11 AM EDT
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Just went over to our property line today to check on the lake/large tank next door. It was low a few weeks ago, today...gone. Nothing there, giant dry lake bed. Will get pics tomorrow. Problem is, now all his cattle now will be drinking out of our lake, which is our only water source for humans and horses. Don't the cattle also poop and pea in and around their water source? (I think I just turned this into a poop thread.) 
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Posted: 8/10/2011 5:15:46 AM EDT
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Just went over to our property line today to check on the lake/large tank next door. It was low a few weeks ago, today...gone. Nothing there, giant dry lake bed. Will get pics tomorrow. Problem is, now all his cattle now will be drinking out of our lake, which is our only water source for humans and horses. Don't the cattle also poop and pea in and around their water source? (I think I just turned this into a poop thread.) Yes, but we have good filtration/treatment on the farm. All the water goes through several filters, a UV system, and goes through a diluted bleach backwash system, perfectly safe to drink. |
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Posted: 8/10/2011 6:13:49 AM EDT
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Well, I just read that Big Spring is going to start blending thier treated poo poo water with fresh water. I hope they filter out the peanuts and corn./ I am crying!!!!!! Gives a new meaning to flavored water. |
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Posted: 8/10/2011 6:22:47 AM EDT
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I was taking a leak outside yesterday and a lizard ran up to my feet thinking it was rain water. If we have a dry winter we are fuc'd as wells, including mine will go dry. I'm in the Trinity.
My great uncle, Walter Prescott Webb, tried to warn people that Texas is half desert and never be lulled into a false sense of plenty. |
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Posted: 8/10/2011 6:55:09 AM EDT
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Looks like we need to take water conservation a little more seriously. I think you could have turned off all the water in December this year, and the river still would have gone dry. |
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Posted: 8/10/2011 6:59:16 AM EDT
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Anybody know what the Colorado is doing? The guy who owns our deer lease was told to stop drawing water for field irrigation in June.
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Posted: 8/10/2011 7:26:03 AM EDT
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What are the buildings along the river? Boat houses. Should be floating. |
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Posted: 8/10/2011 1:23:40 PM EDT
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Looks like we need to take water conservation a little more seriously. I think you could have turned off all the water in December this year, and the river still would have gone dry. Thats probably true. But that isn't to say we as a society are running 100 percent efficient in terms of water and mineral consumption either. |
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Posted: 8/10/2011 6:06:15 PM EDT
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True that it hasn't rained out here in some time, and also true that LT and Pedernales are low, but this is really common for both bodies of water. I've lived on the Pedernales for almost 30 years and it gets this low just about every year. Same with the Sometimes Islands; they usually show up every year about this time. Not belittling the fact that we really need water but I hope that video isn't being used to make people believe this is some rare event.
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Posted: 8/10/2011 6:47:28 PM EDT
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hmm... when I saw the video, i did think that.
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Posted: 8/10/2011 8:46:02 PM EDT
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id always imagine clean fresh water will likely run out before oil. Water will be the commodity and currency of the future, and people will wage wars over water rights, access, usage, distribution, etc. |
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Posted: 8/11/2011 6:34:00 AM EDT
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If Austin weren't a rogue, illegal sanctuary city and allowed ICE to enter and clean out some of the illegal alien colonies in and around the outlying counties, water consumption would be cut by a third. When you have a nest of illegals, who inherently all carry Giardia, there is a constant flow of traffic to and from the bano' flushing the toilet. They can't even go to HEB or Walmart without running to the bano' to take a dump. The big savings is they normally don't wash their hands afterwards...as they go back to squeezing the tomatos and avacados.
Seriously, you have towns like Buda and Kyle that are made up of trailer park illegals fascinated by running water and flushing commodes. Water conservation, not so much. |
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Posted: 8/11/2011 7:41:54 AM EDT
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True that it hasn't rained out here in some time, and also true that LT and Pedernales are low, but this is really common for both bodies of water. I've lived on the Pedernales for almost 30 years and it gets this low just about every year. Same with the Sometimes Islands; they usually show up every year about this time. Not belittling the fact that we really need water but I hope that video isn't being used to make people believe this is some rare event. I've said it once, and I'll say it again, this is the worst single year drought IN TEXAS HISTORY. It is a rare event. We've exceeded the dust bowl era in drought and heat. |
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Posted: 8/11/2011 2:43:19 PM EDT
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True that it hasn't rained out here in some time, and also true that LT and Pedernales are low, but this is really common for both bodies of water. I've lived on the Pedernales for almost 30 years and it gets this low just about every year. Same with the Sometimes Islands; they usually show up every year about this time. Not belittling the fact that we really need water but I hope that video isn't being used to make people believe this is some rare event. I've said it once, and I'll say it again, this is the worst single year drought IN TEXAS HISTORY. It is a rare event. We've exceeded the dust bowl era in drought and heat. I was only referring to those exact two locations. I am aware of the drought records and know we need rain like no one's business but for the Pedernales especially, it goes dry around that portion every year. |
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Posted: 8/11/2011 4:09:11 PM EDT
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True that it hasn't rained out here in some time, and also true that LT and Pedernales are low, but this is really common for both bodies of water. I've lived on the Pedernales for almost 30 years and it gets this low just about every year. Same with the Sometimes Islands; they usually show up every year about this time. Not belittling the fact that we really need water but I hope that video isn't being used to make people believe this is some rare event. I've said it once, and I'll say it again, this is the worst single year drought IN TEXAS HISTORY. It is a rare event. We've exceeded the dust bowl era in drought and heat. I was only referring to those exact two locations. I am aware of the drought records and know we need rain like no one's business but for the Pedernales especially, it goes dry around that portion every year. I live next to the Pedernales, cross it on 71 coming up here to Spicewood, and I have never seen it completely dry and I've been camping/fishing on that river for the last forty years. A friend who owns a ranch next to Pedernales Falls State park has a long stretch of river frontage and this is the first time it's been completely dry cept' for one spring fed hole. Travis, which I live on and am looking at now, is not as low as it was two years ago, yet. Hey, page ownage
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Posted: 8/11/2011 4:13:23 PM EDT
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I have seen the Trinity in Fort Worth dry. Last summer under I-35W it was bone dry, but I think it was only because it is really shallow in that stretch. It may have run dry elsewhere, but that was the only spot I noticed. It looked like it has become very silted up. When it did rain again it looked normal pretty quickly.
What is the normal water depth there? As for Travis we have a lake here that looks like that. Lake Arlington is pretty bad. I haven't checked our other area lakes- it has been too damn hot. Jim |
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Posted: 8/11/2011 4:54:42 PM EDT
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Yesterday I looked out and saw a boat dock prolly 150 meters long being pushed by here on Travis to somewhere where there's deeper water. It looked like a long, flat barg coming down the Mississippi.
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Posted: 8/11/2011 6:14:10 PM EDT
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Raining here on the Llano Estacado. Finally, I hope it does this all night.
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Posted: 8/11/2011 6:22:39 PM EDT
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Raining here on the Llano Estacado. Finally, I hope it does this all night. Really...how far you from Marble Falls? |
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Posted: 8/11/2011 6:36:07 PM EDT
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Raining here on the Llano Estacado. Finally, I hope it does this all night. Really...how far you from Marble Falls? About 350 miles NW of Marble Falls. |
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