Another interesting quote from the Plan 6 analysis by George Cavros: CERPs planned alternative to creating a storage flowway is Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR). It is central to CERP and consumes almost $2 billion of the overall program. The ASR wells are dual purpose, since they are intended to pump water underground for storage during summer wet periods and recover the water and release it during dry winter periods. Managers hope that the technology will provide a dependable water storage mechanism that can supplement surface storage reservoirs and provide water supply to the Lake Okeechobee ecosystem, Everglades ecosystem, agricultural irrigation, urban interests and others. CERP recommends approximately 333 ASR wells. The proposed injection and recovery pumping rate is approximately 1.65 billion gallons per day which is unprecedented in terms of other past or present ASR applications.Total cost of the proposed CERP ASR System is approximately $1,700,000,000. The ASR system is predicted to store cumulative water of approximately 5 million acre feet.By way of comparison, 5 million acre feet of water is equivalent to all the water in Lake Okeechobee at a water level of 11 feet. ASR proponents emphasize that water stored underground isnt subject to evapotranspiration losses. This point, however, ignores the fact that evaporated water basically comes back to the ground, anyway, in the form of rain. A flowway would require less energy than ASR and therefore may be a more efficient way of storing and distributing the water. The ASR projects are estimated to take 25 years. It may be noted, moreover, that previous projects normally require much longer than originally estimated, and large cost overruns are more the rule than exception. By contrast, the basic components of the Plan Six concept already exist and a much shorter deployment period could be utilized if the political will were present. ASR alone costs almost as much as the entire Plan 6 flow way to construct and thats only if there are no cost overruns, which is never. Also, like with fracking, who in the hell wants to inject big sugars waste water into our freakin aquifers? Who is the brainchild that came up with this idea? I certainly dont want our aquifers polluted with that mess, how about you? The fact that Plan 6 uses ALOT of existing infrastructure makes it the only feasible plan for real Everglades restoration. No longer would it be just words on a sheet of paper. Read and learn more at: cwifl/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Plan6.pdf
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:05:40 +0000
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