Construction Of A Water Intake System For Service The Town Of Boone

After meeting and planning with engineers from W.K. Dickson, a firm chosen for their expertise in the project type, a plan was written and presented at a Special Meeting of Boone Town Council in 2009. This meeting allowed several concerns of citizens to be voiced and brought up several issues with the proposed water intake facility (Boone Town Council, 2009).

The need for water in all of society is of the upmost importance in order for humankind to survive. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) states that the Earth’s surface is made up of about 70% water and only 3.5% of the water is fresh water suitable to consume (Perlman, 2013). In order to have the resource of water that society needs, companies such as the Trinity River Authority (TRA) are formed in different communities around the globe. Water supply and reclamation companies range in size and structure from public to privately owned and run.

In the article, “A high-plains showdown over the Dakota Access Pipeline”, Justin Worland addresses the current situation the North Dakota Access Pipeline has brought upon America and its Native American tribes. In particular, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has a conflict between the Energy Transfer Partners company. Energy Transfer Partners wants to build an oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Reservation. The Sioux tribe is against the project because the oil pipeline will destroy their historical ground and their water source of Lake Oahe.

Texans need to change their mindset regarding water conservation if they are going to overcome water shortage. In fact, San Antonio is the only sizable Texas metro area with an aggressive and effective water conservation program (McCormick). Austin has a decent water conservation program, but its per capita water use is still very high (second only to Dallas) and its reduction goals are weak. Houston’s current per capita water use is low, but the City of Houston is actively seeking new water rights and supplies to meet projected future water demands (McCormick). Houston could address those needs on a more cost-effective basis by implementing an aggressive water conservation program like San Antonio. The Texas State Water Plan also fails to address the fourteen percent water loss by water utilities from pipe leaks and water theft (Texas Living Waters Project). Houston is one of the biggest offenders regarding water loss. Texas needs to aggressively monitor water loss and make water loss reduction and the required use of leak detection equipment part of the water rights permitting process. The more than twenty six hundred water utilities who routinely fail to file their annual water loss reports as required by law should be penalized (Texas Living Waters Project). Clearly politics and public opinion regarding the need for conservation have made the current water plan less balanced and sustainable by

In the spring of 2016, an environmental movement began in North Dakota that today, is making history. In Cannonball, North Dakota, Native Americans have gathered to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline; resulting in one the largest gatherings of Native Americans from multiple tribes the United States has witnessed in over a century (Northcott, 2016). One tribe in particular, the North Dakota Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, have been leading and organizing the protest against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Standing Rock reservation is located in the Sioux and Ziebach counties within the North Dakota and South Dakota border; the Sioux people are the primary tribe of the area. According to Trymaine Lee of MSNBC, the counties are a part of the top 10 poorest counties in the country, and that it has a history with water distresses. In the early 1960s, five dams located at Lake Oahe in Standing Rock gave way and flooded 200,000+ acres, destroying nearly all natural resources and wildlife at the river bottom, as well as destroying towns within the reservation and sacred ancestral lands and sites. This was a devastating tragedy for the people of Standing Rock, and it seems that history is repeating itself with the proposed construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline poses many hazardous threats, and these threats outweigh any economic benefit the proponents may promise. It threatens the environment, water supplies, historical land, and only adds to the

We have identified four main water stakeholders: residents, industry, agriculture and recreation/tourism. To elaborate specifics, this list of key stakeholders in Arizona Water was borrowed from a study done by the Decision Center for a Desert City, or DCDC, back in 2007 that assessed Stakeholder views on upcoming changes to the

The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project water tunnel brings many benefits to local farmers around the state. It is the state’s second largest water project and is only smaller than the primary diversion tunnel of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. It is an elaborate reclamation project that brings more than 230,000 acre- feet of water to various cities, including Denver, and to irrigators in the southeast section of the state. Transmountain diversions provide much-needed water to eastern Colorado, which holds more than 90% of the state’s population, but receives less than

When the competition for a vital resource is between residents and crops, human health and wellbeing takes precedence as a matter of policy. When this competition is between one group of residents and another group of residents, the only solution is to spread the resource even thinner often leading to inequities among citizens of differing financial or political influence. Decision-makers should have a zero tolerance agenda concerning any threat to our groundwater resources. This paper proposes that future growth needs to take into account our dependence on surface and subsurface water resources when planning developments and incorporating water resource studies into legislation meant to guide further development in New Jersey. The impact on citizens affected by new construction may not be felt until a crisis occurs and then it will be too late. With the remaining southwestern agricultural counties ripe for development it's never too late to change our vision of the landscape and refuse to gamble with the future needs of our citizens.

Established in 1888, the Brown’s Valley Irrigation District is one of YCWA’s eight local water districts. We obtain water under contract from YCWA and then provide that water for agricultural purposes in an area of Yuba County that spans nearly 87 square miles, with approximately 1,500 installed connections. YCWA provides this essential water supply by actively controlling and storing water at New Bullards Bar Reservoir, which enables us to convey it to

Recently Dakota Access pipeline is running the headlines. Native American tribes and their partners, drove by the Standing Rock Sioux, have been challenging the Dakota Access pipeline, a venture that would transport oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and Montana over the Plains to Illinois. The nonconformists, numbering in the thousands and including individuals from several distinct tribes, contend that finishing the pipeline would profane hereditary grounds, undermine the water supply, and unjustifiably trouble the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which is probably not going to profit by any financial advancement that goes with the venture. Energy Transfer Partners, the enterprise behind the pipeline, recommends the venture will prompt to more noteworthy monetary advancement and expanded security and productivity contrasted with the trains that presently convey Bakken unrefined petroleum (Harris and Gonchar, 2016).

DISCUSSION: Mike Jones, Director, Tuscarawas County Metropolitan Sewer District (TCMSD) was present to discuss upcoming applications with the Ohio Public Works Commission (OPWC). Mr. Jones discussed the Zoarville Waterline Transmission Project. The Zoarville Waterworks company currently operates a small water system that serves about 53 customers in the unincorporated community of Zoarville. Earlier this year, Mr. Jones was approached by the Zoarville Waterworks to discuss the possibility of turning their system over to TCMSD for continued operation, ownership and maintenance. After the initial meeting with Zoarville he met with members of their board and the Ohio EPA to discuss it further. The Ohio EPA in a follow up letter from that meeting indicated they were supportive of this arrangement and also indicated it would be in the best interest of both parties to pursue this matter. Currently, the TCMSD is in the process of developing an agreement for such an arrangement. The TCMSD also has a letter of intent from the Zoarville Board of Trustees indicating their desire to transfer their system to the TCMSD. Mr. Jones indicated that in order to do this they need to extend the 8” waterline to Zoarville. The estimated project cost for extension is $520,000.00. Mr. Jones proposal is to submit $228,000.00 in grant application with the balance a combination of a 0% 20-year loan and local share on any type of services TCMSD would provide. The user charges for the new

Georgia, Florida, & Alabama have been battling for decades over the future distribution of the water from the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa & Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basins, all of which cross the states' borders. The argument has thus far involved many local, state, & federal agencies, plus numerous courts & mediators. The outcome of this dispute is one of the region's most important environmental issues today. Georgia wants to be assured enough water to grow, especially in Atlanta, as well as having water to supply other cities & agricultural use. However, Atlanta, not being in a water-rich part of the state & sprawling on top of countless river systems draining into the Atlantic & the Gulf of Mexico, creates a problem. Alabama

In July 2016, the Army Corps of Engineers determined that the Dakota Access Pipeline presented no significant environmental risks and could go forward as planned by its developers. However, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe whose lands the pipeline would cross, as well as other indigenous groups, and allies including scientists, have urged the Army Corps of Engineers to reconsider this judgment. Perhaps due to this pressure, the Army Corps of Engineers has since delayed the easement, to the resistance of Energy Transfers Partners (ETP), who say they will build anyway, even without the permit (Heavey). While this struggle over legal rights as well as economic, environmental, and health concerns continues, we should understand why the Army Corps

The Denver Basin aquifer system is a noteworthy wellspring of water for South Metro Denver. The framework stretches out from Colorado Springs in the south to Greeley in the north, from the foothills close Golden in the west toward the eastern fields close Limon, a surface region of around 6,700 square miles. It incorporates four aquifers: the Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe, and Laramie-Fox Hills. Every aquifer has diverse water quality, profundities, and water accessibility (CFWE, 2002).

As we take a look on the indigenous plan to construct a pipeline in North Dakota on Native American land it is formidable to see the results that have taken place and that are still occurring. As an individual we must ask ourselves whether this pipeline is truly worth all the risks and possible corruption of the sacred lands. I for one believe the company, Energy Transfer, has no right to dismantle such little land that been has left so to say to the Sioux tribe. Although when taken into consideration, we must evaluate three major concepts: the pros, cons, and ultimately how they collide. We can learn how this is helping, how it is hurting, and as well if the company is trying to work with the tribe or completely run them over. Therefore, we