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Originally Posted by Mike B.  Bubba,
You may be right! I may not know how much water is actually used during a season. I'll try looking into it some more!
TexKan,
I did not mean to offend you but our current pool does have an aluminum lining which is rusting away, allowing water to seep out. (Which may not be a bad idea)
The old pool was made of concrete. They last forever! (almost) |
Bubba is right. Besides evaporation, you have to have release of concentrated water to allow incoming makeup water to dilute the system water. Works same for boilers and cooling towers that are water cooled. This is a highly concentrated water with minerals, alkalinity, pH, etc., that is being released as wastewater. If you turn it back to the ground, as they are saying in their "propaganda", it will leave an alkali flat like you see in parts of the SW US. I would think that KDHE would make them build a proper holding lagoon to contain this wastewater.
As for the pool, I remember when they voted to build our current pool. Seems like the powers to be, at that time, pushed the aluminum type pool just for that reason. It would be more resistant to degeneration, so it would last longer. Can't they replace the liner? How about pouring a concrete liner inside of the present aluminum liner? I guess instead of a pool, we could send the kids down to the river to swim, like we did when we were kids. Oh yeah, the river is dry!!! Well, we could send them to swim in the lagoons at the new alcohol plant, or how about down to the sewer ponds south of town???