Originally Posted by
FVR
We up here in North Ga are getting hit pretty hard. Lake Lanier is down 14', lake Allatoona is down over 15', local trout streams are dry, there is a complete water ban on residential uses.
I cleaned a stripper in South Atl yesterday and must have used a good 500 gal. of water. I was waiting for the water dep. to stop by but they never did. We are requ. by the EPD to keep these million dollar systems running.
Now, downstream of Lanier on the Chatahoochee river, looks great. Downstream of Allatoona on the Etowah also looks just fine. They say S. Ga water is good, just up North.
Water table in the first aquafer has dropped drastically. Monitoring wells that usually have water at 20' or less below ground surface are down in the 35 to 40 foot depth range. This takes a toll on the liquid ring pumps as when the water drops this far, you get drastic air pockets which lowers the inches of mercury and over heats the pump.
Since the water is down, the petroleum that has leaked into the ground and that has just been sitting there, is just flowing out into the wells. This is good, unless you have deep wells that reach into the second and third aquafer. This may cause cross contamination between aquafers.
Blah, blah, blah...................LOL.....I can go on but it'll get a bit more boring.
