By: nicole

nicole — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:34:25 +0000

PURPLE PIPE carries treated effluent back to the same communities that paid for the water the first time, only it is used for irrigation purposes.
IRRIGATION ACCOUNTS FOR 60% OF PEAK DEMAND USAGE. Why pay for and treat the water twice when communities could use their own treated effluent without compromising the water quality of the water we drink.

By: Lonnie Moore

Lonnie Moore — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:03:21 +0000

As Vice-president of Protect Lake Travis Association, I want to publicly thank the Lake Travis View for covering our annual meeting and to thank LCRA for providing two excellent speakers. Water quality and water quantity – both matter greatly to PLTA members and to all users of Lake Travis.
But speaking just for myself only, I do think that lost in all the excellent information presented at the meeting was the underlying threat of future discharges of so-called “treated effluent” – sewage – into our lakes. Calling it “effluent” or “treated wastewater” does not change what it really is – sewage – and it’s bad for any waterway used by people for recreation and water supply.
Our lake is threatened by cities like Round Rock that want to pump out millions of gallons per day of drinking water to fuel their own economic growth (at our expense) and by developers and wastewater plant operators who would prefer to take the cheaper, easier route of getting rid of sewage by dumping it into the Highland Lakes. Lately, some of these developers and plant operators have tried to leverage concern over lower lake levels by touting the “benefit” of adding the treated effluent back into the lake to increase the water supply. Do you really want to send Lake Travis water outside the river basin and to replace it with “treated” sewage? That is a very bad deal for Lake Travis and we should not fall for it.

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By: nicole

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