The Problem with the Wasatch

[raisingarizona]

The reason the lake is salty is because it has no outlet other than evaporation, so all the minerals accumulate. The reason the water level is so low is due to population growth and increased usage of water from the lake's tributaries. The idea of a pipeline from the ocean is that it would keep the lake at a safe level, while allowing the city to use freshwater from the tributaries. It's not an outlandish idea at all. We have oil and gas pipelines everywhere. Why not have one for water?

Now we know how we're gonna pay for it: a partnership of skiers who want to keep the Wasatch snow machine going and environmentalists. Win-win!

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Boo yah!

 

[tirolski]

Folks built waterlines to water the Big Apple from the Catskills, just saying.
The Big Apple already had water all around it...too.

Salt water very bad for grass.

Salt water very bad for grass.

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[TheGreatAbyss]

If 1.5 million people use 100 gallons per day, that's only 150 million gallions, or about 20 million cubic feet. The Iroquois pipeline that brings natural gas to NYC from Canada is 125 million cubic feet per day, and that's just one of the pipelines that serve the city.

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Damn, that's a lot of gas. Thanks for this info.

 

[x10003q]

Folks built waterlines to water the Big Apple from the Catskills, just saying.
The Big Apple already had water all around it...too.

Salt water very bad for grass.

Salt water very bad for grass.

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97% of the NYC water system works by gravity. The farthest reservoirs are about 100 miles from the NYC. The Hudson River is considered an estuary (mix of sea water and fresh water) past the Tappan Zee Bridge and not drinkable.

 

[Campgottagopee]

NYC water system

We are very lucky here in CNY. Our water is excellent thanks to a glacial aquifer.

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[Brownski]

The Hudson River is considered an estuary (mix of sea water and fresh water) past the Tappan Zee Bridge and not drinkable.

Thank you.
I have to explain this all the time. It’s brackish to Poughkeepsie and tidal all the way up to Green Island where the first dam is.

 

[jamesdeluxe]

We are very lucky here in CNY. Our water is excellent thanks to a glacial aquifer.

Back in the early/mid-70s, before anyone really cared about such things (or discussed them), we always marveled at how much tastier the water was at my grandparents' house in Cortland compared to ours in Camillus, which is from Skaneateles Lake. It's possible that they added too much chlorine to our water?

We also preferred Bill Bros milk in Cortland compared to what we got delivered in Camillus (Dairylea) -- loved those glass containers with the indentations for your hands!

 

[jasonwx]

Fun fact
they are in the process of replacing and building a new NYC water tunnel..My kid is a tunnel engineer.. Here are some pics..

 

[tirolski]

We are very lucky here in CNY. Our water is excellent thanks to a glacial aquifer.

Yup.
"The Salt City” Syracuse has it’s own lake and then folks put in gravity fed lines from the 2 closest finger lakes.
There’s no shortage of H2O around these parts.
Algae blooms can be a thing though especially if it ain’t windy in the summer.
The county (OCWA) can pump water out of The Big O too if it’s needed but it’s all uphill.
@jamesdeluxe maybe they put too much Cl2 in at the reservoirs.

Syracuse New York Waterworks

www.waterworkshistory.us

 

[jamesdeluxe]

"The Salt City” Syracuse has it’s own lake

Onondaga Lake! I know that this is a thread hijack (or it should be broken out into a new thread), but this is how clean it was back in the day: