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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (882501)	8/25/2015 3:32:00 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576113

Long term, it was actually meant to bring them in to compliance with EPA regs. They started doing it back in '08, and all the news coverage was of the final dump. "the $250M in "savings" that the politicians are claiming" is the cost of buying an actual cover for the entire reservoir.. The EPA requires LADWP to cover, replace or take offline all of its open-air reservoirs and with the expansive surface of the LA reservoir, it was not practical or possible to use a single floating cover to meet the water quality standards. Instead of splitting the reservoir in two with a bisecting dam and installing two floating covers that would have cost more than $300 million, LADWP used the 4-inch black plastic balls that cost 36 cents each to meets its regulation standards. "The shade balls require no construction, parts, labor or maintenance aside from the occasional rotation," the LADWP press release said. accuweather.com "Each HCF is worth somewhere between $5-7" And there sits Rat, with about 4 acre feet. Bentway just posted this on VFC.. Making Ocean Water Drinkable Is Much Harder Than You Think California's Carlsbad Desalination Project, which will start operating later this year, will process more than 104 million gallons of seawater daily, turning about half that into drinking water. popularmechanics.com

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (882501)	8/25/2015 4:41:21 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576113

Yesterday I saw a bit on TV about how they're having to clean up millions of old tires off the cost in Ft. Lauderdale. It seems that back in the 70s, environmentalists had the great idea of throwing old tires in the water. I vaguely remembered it when I saw the store. The idea was to create a sort of artificial reef or at least where coral could grow. What it did, of course, was to create a self-inflicted case of tire pollution on the coast. It totally didn't work; all it did was made a mess. So, now they're having divers go down and haul millions of tires out of the water, 30 at a time. A sort of jobs program for scuba divers, I suppose. This seems like the same problem to me. They bitch about water bottles all over the place then they go dump black water bottles in their reservoir. I'm pretty sure I know how this is going to end. Someone is going to have to clean up every last one of those bottles before it is over.