Ben Copeland, who is on the Suwannee-Satilla regional water council, has learned something about rivers:

“One of the things that keeps some of these rivers going is the treated effluent that goes into them.

Now Brad Lofton wants to use some of that up in a biomass plant. We have a problem there.”

It’s at the end of this video:

Video of Ben Copeland, Past Chairman of the Board, Wiregrass Technical College,
speaking at the Lake Park Chamber of Commerce annual dinner,
Lake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 January 2011.
by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

Matthew Richard brought up a similar point in his LTE in the VDT of yesterday:

And may I just remind everyone that 85% of this water will evaporate into the atmosphere? It will not seep back into the ground and recharge our local aquifers.

Hm, we’ve got a featured speaker at a Chamber of Commerce meeting and a college professor independently bringing up the same problem with the proposed biomass plant.

-jsq

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