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Saw someone washing his car at the county tap
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08-30-2015, 11:31 AM
On catchment, don't need any fools trying to get the county to force water on me. I see the county users out digging up their lines, seems like weekly.
dick wilson "Nothing is idiot proof,because idiots are so ingenious!"
dick wilson
"Nothing is idiot proof,because idiots are so ingenious!"
08-30-2015, 12:48 PM
quote: I've attended some meetings where that seems to be the attitude - public testimony demanding that the county/state install water lines into the subdivisions in Puna because of the threat posed by living on catchment... Don't think it's likely to happen, but one never knows...
08-30-2015, 01:12 PM
My first time at the Pahoa spigots there was a guy washing his pickup truck. I haven't seen that behavior since, but first impressions and all.... I assume it happens all the time. At least he parked his truck a ways away from the spigot and used a long hose. Since there were plenty of empty spigots it didn't really bother me other than the fact I thought the spigots were there for drinking water and not sprucing up one's truck. But who am I to judge? Maybe he needed his truck clean for some wholesome reason like donating it to a church auction or some such?
Recently I went to the spigots at the Keaau dump at dusk and a guy took his little kids there to bathe. Well, I don't know for sure who's kids they were but it was an adult with 3 naked kids bathing in the spigots. No hoses or anything. Also no swimsuits. It was practically dark so they at least had some semblance of privacy. Because of our good filtration and UV system on our catchment we don't use a lot of county water so we don't go to the spigots very often. I'm sure there are a lot of good stories to be told. My least favorite part of the spigot experience is how people think that because there is free water available, that is apparently a good place to dump rubbish. This makes no sense to me. There is always trash strewn EVERYWHERE like people are just animals. It's especially frustrating at the Keaau dump because YOU ARE AT THE FREAKIN' DUMP. HAUL YOUR CRAP AN ADDITIONAL 1 MINUTE AWAY AND PUT IT IN THE FREE DUMPSTERS! How has the level of entitlement risen to the point that somebody sees a free water spigot and automatically assumes that it comes with a complimentary butler concierge service to pick up their now soggy garbage off the ground for them and haul it that painful 1 minute away to the dumpster? Sheesh, I bet it takes longer to look both ways to make sure nobody is watching as they dump their garbage at the spigot rather than actually take the garbage to the dumpster. I wish they would put up cameras and catch these people with the justice being that they have to spend 40 hours picking up other people's garbage. ETA: grammar, vigilante judging statement
08-30-2015, 04:11 PM
quote: Hmmm....Is it not correct that geothermal is draining our water table? Part of their process is pouring million of gallons into the wells on a regular schedule?
08-31-2015, 04:17 AM
quote: It is absolutely not correct. The geothermal plant draws steam/water from deep wells, uses the heat from the steam/water to generate power, and then reinjects that same water (and steam condensate) back into other deep wells to be re-heated and used again to provide heat to the generation system. There is no need whatsoever to inject surface water into the production reservoir (in Puna) to recover its heat. Injection of surface water is done in some other places where natural recharge to the reservoir is restricted (at the Geysers geothermal field, they actually use recovered wastewater - thereby reducing wastewater discharge into the Russian River - to restore water to the geothermal reservoir there). But that is not, and has not been, done in Puna.
08-31-2015, 05:31 AM
It doesn't enter or harm the groundwater.
Because Ormat says so, and it must be true. I find that anti-scale chemicals are a desecration of my cultural rights, and this abomination must be stopped.
08-31-2015, 07:02 AM
How did this topic end up on Ormat and geo thermal little off topic dont you think?
jrw
jrw
08-31-2015, 07:41 AM
OBob did with this post
"By your reasoning of,"charge em", the county cofferes would be overflowing with cash from the millions of gallons that PGV uses" Gypsy should be chiming in soon that the TMT is going to destroy the spigots with their death ray !
08-31-2015, 07:46 AM
quote:You supposedly live in Puna with nightly rains and not too uncommon torrential downpours and you ask this? I call BS, you don't even live here. Stop with the crocodile tear caring, nobody is buying it. Freaking agenda addicts. "Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
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