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Utah Desalinization Plant Causes Earthquake
mknewman writes "A Utah desalinization plant which removes 260 gallons of salty brine from a river which feeds the Colorado river has caused a 3.9 on the Richter Scale earthquake, noticeable by people 60 miles away in Grand Junction. More information at http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/11/15/earthqu ake.wellpumpin.ap/index.html"
Well, in the interests of refecting what the article actually said, mknewman might have posted:, "A Utah desalinization plant which pumps 260 gallons per minute of salty brine to a depth of 14,000 feet underground, is probably associated with an earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter Scale, and noticeable by people 60 miles away in Grand Junction. More information at CNN.com
Three Squirrels
The downstream river is the sole source of water for, among other places, Las Vegas.
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http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/states/colorado/colorado _history.html
"In 1961, a 12,000-foot well was drilled at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, northeast of Denver, for disposing of waste fluids from Arsenal operations. Injection was commenced March 1962, and an unusual series of earthquakes erupted in the area shortly after."
I have no idea how lethal a 3.9 is but it must be a hell of a lot better for places like LA then a 8.
As someone who lives with earthquakes (Southern California), I think I can speak with a little bit of knowledge. A 3.9 is a, "huh, why is that light swaying?" earthquake. A few dishes that are sitting in a very precarious spot might fall and break, but no one is going to really notice. For those of us used to living with them, I wouldn't expect much reaction until at least a 5; a 6 which is close, or a 6.5 might actually get me to head for a doorway, assuming it lasts for more than a couple seconds.
Why is it that people seem to get so worked up over earthquakes? The ground rumbles for a bit, and the bigger ones make for a good ride. The chances of being in a big one, close enough to the epicenter to matter, and being in a structure which collapses, are really small. Yes, there is some danger, but it's probably less then the dangers or breathing the air in LA.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Laziness is the father.
Try to irrigate your field with brackish water and after few years nothing will grow there.
Ridiculous portion of Colorado water gets diverted upstream from Utah. Plus, some Utah tributaries have natutaly high salt content. So what flows down after Utah is more salty than it is acceptable for agriculture. Since they have no spare water to dilute it, they have to desalinate.
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
Also remember that Richter is a logrithmic scale- a 4 is 10 times as bad as a 3, a 5 10 times as bad as a 4, etc. It other words, this was 1/1000 of the quake that collapsed the freeway. Big enough to feel a shake, not large enough to do damage. It really needs to hit 5 or 6 to do so.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Your argument whilst superficially attractive seems to be based on jealousy greed and ignorance.
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It seems that the final cost of your national nuclear weapons defence program also offers you the choice of drinking radioactive water or paying your tax dollars to keep the Colorado river clean.
To summarise
"U.S. DOE announces plan to relocate Atlas Moab uranium mill tailings
During a ceremony, held on January 14, 2000, high on a cliffside bench above the tailings, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced a sweeping plan for relocating the Atlas Moab tailings away from the bank of the Colorado River. With this plan, Richardson is addressing the fears of Los Angeles water officials that the water supply for millions of Southern Californians would be threatened if the 10.5 million short tons of radioactive dirt were left on the flood plain of the Colorado River.
Two big hurdles remain in the drive to clear away the pile, left near Moab by Atlas when it went bankrupt: funding the multi-year project, which the DOE estimates would cost $300 million, and transferring authority from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the DOE. (Deseret News / Salt Lake Tribune Jan 15, 2000)"
"A bill ordering the Atlas uranium mill tailings dug up and moved from the flood plain of the Colorado River near Moab was approved Oct. 12, 2000 by the U.S. Senate. The measure, which passed the House on Oct. 11, now goes to the president for his signature. (Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 13, 2000)
President Clinton signed the bill on Oct. 30, 2000."
"President Bush has included no money in his 2002 budget to clean up the abandoned uranium mill tailings site near Moab, Utah, where federal officials have estimated 16,000 gallons of water containing radioactive uranium tailings are leaking into the Colorado River each day. Despite legislation passed by Congress last year giving the Department of Energy authority to begin cleaning up the site, the department has set aside no specific funding to get started. (Las Vegas Review-Journal, April 24, 2001)"
So your deffinition of private property rights includes opting out of being an American - presumably developing nuclear weapons in your garage capable of persuading the Soviet Union to surrender in the cold war. What you are suggesting is that you want to opt out of your own society. You may have perfectly good reasons to do so but I think you will find that you are in a minority of one - or maybe I'm wrong and you can persuade everybody that drinking radioactive water is good for you.
Whilst you consider your options, here is a beautifull view of the waste heap to watch whilst you think about it.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/gjt/Moab.html
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
So I guess you missed the James Bond movie A View to a Kill. In that movie, the evil Zorin wants to cause an earthquake that will destroy Silicon Valley. His method? Pumping massive amount of salt water into the faults, then blowing up part of the fault. So the plant in TFA wasn't blowing up faults, but their salt water did grease the faultlines- just like the movie in 1985 suggested.
See Mom, I learned a lot from re-watching all those James Bond movies...!