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| Lake Drops Again Overnight, Water Use Skyrockets By: James Clark Lubbock water use doubled from last year. Lake Meredith lost nearly half an inch overnight. And the city council meets in special session this morning. The numbers are stunning; just absolutely stunning. Water use in Lubbock more than doubled when comparing two days ago with June 17th of last year. On June 17th of last year, Lubbock used 21.8 million gallons. On June 17th this year (the most recent numbers available at news time) Lubbock used 53.5 million gallons. To put this in perspective, that’s 244 gallons for every man woman and child in the city of Lubbock. Last year we never saw a single day with temperatures at or higher than 100 degrees. This year we have experienced eight 100-degree days as measured by the Lubbock office of National Weather Service. In a related development: Sadly we must report that two nights of big storms over the lake Meredith watershed have not raised the water level. As a matter of fact the lake lost nearly half an inch of depth since our newscast yesterday morning. Radar estimates of rainfall totals would indicate that portions of the watershed have received nearly an inch of rainfall in the last 48 hours. It can take a couple days for water to get downstream into the lake. The city council meets this morning in special session in conjunction with the Lubbock water board. That agenda includes updates on major projects like the pipeline to Lake Alan Henry. But if Lake Meredith continues to fall this fast then Alan Henry cannot possibly be online before Meredith fails as a water source… not even close. CRMWA or the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority has put a PDQ on expanding the water well project in Roberts County. “Is it possible that the lake might fail as a water source prior to the well field expansion?” asks News Radio 1420. CRMWA General Manager Ken Satterwhite says, “Well, I don’t believe so. No. I don’t think that would happen.” Since the onset of hot dry weather, the volume of Lake Meredith has been dropping roughly 200 acre-feet per day (which is more than 65 million gallons). Some of that is water use and some of it is evaporation. The volume yesterday was 69,101 acre-feet. It is estimated that Meredith can be used as a water source down to 14,000 acre-feet. That means there is a usable volume of roughly 55,000 acre-feet in Lake Meredith. Story Posted: Thu Jun 19 06:30:00 CDT 2008 Created: Thu Jun 19 05:01:20 CDT 2008 BACK TO HOME/NEWS Top Story • Lubbock tax bill going up Lubbock News & Lbk County • Tech fans face parking challenges • Seat belts required in school buses • Apartment fire injures one Weather • Thursday Forecast Business • AM Business Notebook Around Texas • Cornyn Comments On Obama's Iraq War Remarks • Fire Warning For Hunters As Dove Season Kicks Off • Boy Dies Of Rare Infection From Water • Austin Headlines • Dallas Headlines • Houston Headlines • San Antonio Headlines Swap Shop • Swap Shop Update This Day In History • Today Marks Formal End Of World War Two • Today In History Birthdays • Today's Birthdays Entertainment • Tonight's TV Off Beat News Of The Day • Middle School Student Arrested Over Facebook Threats Health Beat • New North American Lutheran Church Launched • New Study Doesn't Bode Well For Abbott Diet Drug Religion Today • New North American Lutheran Church Launched • Al-Qaeda Leader Calls For Killing Christians Sports • Sports Shorts |
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