!!! Remember - It's water, water, water - or lack of it !!!
Ethanol distillery waste water can be a
problem, too!
"...The content and the amount of the waste exceed
permitted levels and have caused problems for the county's
sewage treatment equipment, Hotz said Friday. The county ran the
risk of being fined by the Environmental Protection Agency if it
didn't act, he said...
...The plant, which began operations in 2005,
continues to function, with wastewater being trucked to other
treatment facilities and the plant's 33 employees using portable
toilets...."
Ethanol
plant cut off from sewer system,
Medina, Ohio, APWire 6/10/06
(Click to read)
► DEP Issues Drought Watch for Entire State (Click to go to read the entire article)
"Bear Valley customers have been on mandatory water
restrictions for more than a year because of supply problems.
They started paying 35% more for water in January to pay for the
required improvements."
New homes will get borough water by
Jim Hook, Public Opinion, September
21, 2005 (Click
to read)
Question #33 How many people could use the water that is
planned to be supplied to Penn-Mar's ethanol distillery every
day?
►
Water commitment letter from John Van Horn for the Franklin
County General Authority (FCGA) to Penn-Mar Ethanol (Click
to read)
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Penn-Mar's distillery would require
approximately 800,000 gallons of water every day to be supplied
from the Letterkenny Reservoir near Roxbury by LIDA's
utilities authority, the Franklin County General Authority (FGCA).
"The Letterkenny Reservoir provides a clean source of
drinking water for the FCGA." from the Source
Water Assessment Public Summary (click)
►
According to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection Estimated Water Withdrawals and Use in
Pennsylvania, state-wide domestic per capita public-supplied
water usage is 62 gallons per day per person.
800,000 gallons is enough water to supply 12,903 people's usage
every day.
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The Penn-Mar Ethanol
distillery would employ approximately 35 people. According to
Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry statistics,
the unemployment rate in Franklin County is 3.6% - the lowest in
the state.
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"Shippensburg
Borough Authority approved a 30-year agreement Tuesday to
purchase up to 650,000 gallons of raw water daily from the
Franklin County General Authority's Letterkenny
Reservoir...."
Authority
finds new source of water
"Water
is getting scarcer in Hamilton, St. Thomas and Peters townships
where 4,000 water customers are drawing down the reserves of the
Bear Valley Joint Authority.
Consumers have been on mandatory water restrictions since
August: Homeowners can't water lawns or wash cars; restaurants
don't serve water unless asked...."
"Plans
for the South Antrim Business Center may change and less land
may be available for development due to the hunt for water....
...This
community is exploding and water demand is exploding with it.
We're looking down the road and what the demand is going to be
in 10 years," Barvinchack said. "If they develop Phase
2, where is all this water going to come from?
Water
hunt jeopardizes development
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►Residential
growth in Greene Township (where the Penn-Mar ethanol distillery
has submitted its development plan):
"Dave Jemison (Jamison)
said well over 2,000 new housing units could be built in Greene
Township in the next few years."
Click
to read - District
gets peek at growth
by
Penn-Mar's distillery would require
approximately 800,000 gallons of water every day.
800,000 gallons is enough water to supply 12,903 people's usage
every day.
► Port authority deals a blow to ethanol plant by Friday, Jul. 29, 2005, HeraldToday.com
► Water plan is crucial to growth Click to read this article by Kathy Leedy, Editor of the Public Opinion Editorial Page, August 26, 2005
Mandatory water use restrictions in place in another
midstate community by
Scott Gilbert 09/23/2005
(Click
to connect to the article on the WITF website)
(Fredericksburg) -- A Lebanon
County community is the latest in the midstate to be placed
under mandatory water use restrictions. The Fredericksburg Sewer
and Water Authority has declared a water emergency, urging
neighbors to use water only for "essential purposes."
In fact, uses such as washing vehicles and watering lawns are
banned. Authorities say the move is necessary because two
chicken processing plants in the area, which normally rely on
ground wells of their own, have signed on as customers because
those wells are nearly dry. That means the water authority needs
to supply five times the amount of water it normally provides.
Through an emergency pipeline set up eight years ago, the
borough will receive some water from the city of Lebanon. But,
officials note, the city also has a limited supply.
"...Nowhere is the growing clash between economic development
and water conservation more evident than in the push to build
ethanol plants that typically guzzle 3˝ to
6 gallons of water for every gallon of fuel produced.
Minnesota's 15 ethanol plants together consume about 2 billion
gallons of water per year, and plants in Winthrop, Windom,
Marshall and Granite Falls are straining available water
resources...." from
Water supply can't meet thirst for new industry
by Greg Gordon,
Star Tribune,
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, December 27, 2005
"...About 2 billion gallons of water a year are
consumed by Minnesota’s 15 ethanol plants.
One source of help should come from a $400 million public works
project in South Dakota – the Lewis & Clark Rural Water System –
that eventually will pipe 3.78 million gallons of Missouri River
water daily to southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa..."
ArgusLeader.com, The
Associated Press, December 27, 2005
(Click to read)