{"id":2427,"date":"2011-02-03T15:46:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T20:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/biomass-water-usage-as-a-problem-ben-copeland.html"},"modified":"2011-02-03T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T20:46:51","slug":"biomass-water-usage-as-a-problem-ben-copeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/biomass-water-usage-as-a-problem-ben-copeland.html","title":{"rendered":"Biomass water usage as a problem. &#8211;Ben Copeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0SNAAVsJ440\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/0SNAAVsJ440\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nBen Copeland, who is on the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suwanneesatilla.org\/\"><br \/>\nSuwannee-Satilla regional water council,<\/a><br \/>\nhas learned something about rivers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;One of the things that keeps some of these rivers going is the treated effluent that goes into them.<\/p>\n<p>\nNow Brad Lofton wants to use some of that up in a biomass plant.<br \/>\nWe have a problem there.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s at the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0SNAAVsJ440\"><br \/>\nthis video:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0SNAAVsJ440\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nVideo of Ben Copeland, Past Chairman of the Board, Wiregrass Technical College,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nspeaking at the Lake Park Chamber of Commerce annual dinner,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 January 2011.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nby Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nMatthew Richard brought up a similar point<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/taking-water-for-granted-matthew-richard.html\"><br \/>\nin his LTE in the VDT of yesterday:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd may I just remind everyone that 85% of this water will evaporate into<br \/>\nthe atmosphere? It will not seep back into the ground and recharge our<br \/>\nlocal aquifers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hm, we&#8217;ve got a featured speaker at a Chamber of Commerce meeting<br \/>\nand a college professor independently bringing up the same problem with the proposed biomass plant.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Copeland, who is on the Suwannee-Satilla regional water council, has learned something about rivers: &#8220;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.&#8221; It&#8217;s at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,120,3423,178,55,501],"tags":[5058,2554,8738,8701,10,8702,8792,3536,7,1174,5102,5115,8743,294,8727,4139],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-lpcoc","category-vlcia","category-water","category-wiregrass-tech","tag-28-january-2011","tag-ben-copeland","tag-biomass","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lake-park","tag-lake-park-chamber-of-commerce","tag-lowndes-county","tag-matthew-richard","tag-past-chairman-of-the-board","tag-suwannee-satilla","tag-vsu","tag-wastewater","tag-water","tag-wiregrass-technical-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}