[texbirds] Re: Drought and no rivers, for
- From: "Stevan Hawkins" <shawkins4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'4 Texbirds Maillist'" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:30:57 -0500
Sue:
As long as golf courses use gray (recycled sewage water) green golf courses
are not as bad. For years I have wondered why American golf courses look
like pool tables and the fabled Scottish golf courses look almost natural.
It is clearly a case of setting a bad example and bad public relations for
golf courses to look a dark green during a drought.
Later!
Steve
Stevan Hawkins
San Antonio TX
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On Behalf Of Susan Orwig
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:58 AM
To: Brush Freeman
Cc: Joseph Kennedy; 4 Texbirds Maillist
Subject: [texbirds] Re: Drought and no rivers, for
Does anyone have a problem with golf courses staying green in this drought?
I do, but I don't golf?
Sue Orwig in west Houston
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Brush Freeman
<brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I want to apologize to Joe, a gifted birder, naturalist and resource
> whom I have the highest respect for, for my crass remarks. I hope we
> can argue as friends. Joe has posted on the Colorado R./LCRA
> previously on at least 2-3 occasions and he is right to have his
> opinions, but I strongly feel that the LCRA is not conserving water to
> short downstream customers or habitats merely for recreational
> purposes in the Highland Lakes. To think otherwise is a Twinkie full
> of dumb IMO. I figure with his last post Joe settled that pretty well
> with his thoughts. Anyway my blast has weighed on my mind and as
> always it was the other Brush ranting... not me :-)
> **********************************************************************
> Brush Freeman
> 503-551-5150 Cell
> http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
> Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Joseph Kennedy
> <josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > I do get a little carried away a little on a favorite subject of
> > Texas drought going way back to the big one in the 1950's. Starting
> > with summer camp getting closed as no one could afford to send kids
> > from texas and a great shortage in cows shipped to Iowa to be
> > fattened. Which led my mother's farm manager turning to rustling and
> > my mother deciding to sell the farm. He was one of the most
> > successful cattle rustlers in the
> history
> > of the business. I wrote several papers in high school and college etc.
> > about the drought back then and my relatives here in Texas suffered.
> > Each glass of water in Corpus Christi in those days contained more
> > than a dose of Epsom salts.
> > The drought now is worse than any back in the 1950's. They started
> > measuring ground water, soil moisture levels etc in 1948 and both
> > last
> year
> > and this year such measures are in the worst 1 or 2%. Compared to
> > areas
> to
> > our west, Houston is wet but is 5 feet below normal for the last 5
years.
> > But Houston glommed lots of water through the quaint system of first
> > dibs but much of that water has already been through the sewage
> > systems of the metroplex. So much for dibs.
> >
> > There just is no water out there and it cannot be created. But I saw
> > pictures of Austin a couple nights ago on TV and the lake looked
> > very
> nice
> > and pretty. Not a drought stricken place at all. They released 8000
> > acre feet as required by law for the bay but who will police the
> > water as it goes down there. I used know where a lot of pumps worked
> > a lot taking
> water
> > out of the river at night and there is not a lot of river police out
> there
> > ensuring that they do not run the pumps anymore. If I had 150 year
> > old trees, I would probably pump too as they have done for 150 years.
> >
> > But then Houston was famous for sinking into the bay until it
> > stopped the pumping of ground water causing the subsidence. But
> > wait. The very rich
> and
> > politically connected in Houston still get to pump ground water to
> > their 24th floor 14,000 square foot high rise condominium as they
> > cannot afford to actually pay for a water bill from the city.
> >
> > Incidentally, Eagle Lake in front of the LCRA office is filled to
> > the
> brim
> > and overflowing.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Joseph Kennedy
> > <josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> >
> > > Don't know if they made a big deal in Austin as Austin is the home
> > > of green people and environmentalists and all that is good in the
world.
> > >
> > > The LCRA also known as the Colorado River authority has agreed to
> > > stop
> > all
> > > water inflows into Matagorda Bay as of the end of this month. That
> > > will mean no fresh water into the bay and adjacent bay systems
> > > going down
> > toward
> > > Aransas. They have already cut all water for ducks, shorebirds
> > > rice and wildlife near the coast.
> > >
> > > This is all done to ensure that the yuppies can go out on the
> > > lakes
> with
> > > their powerboats and vroom-vroom and zoom-zoom while they
> > > pontificate
> > about
> > > how they are so much in favor of the environment that allows them
> > > to maximize their personal noise and air pollution to the
> > > detriment of the rest of the universe.
> > >
> > > So what if some cranes die etc. They can always clone more using
> > > the latest yuppy tech stuff they will think of while zooming
> > > around. So
> even
> > > the Austin sewage water will no longer reach the coast and those
> downhill
> > > of yuppyville.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Joseph C. Kennedy
> > > on Buffalo Bayou in West Houston
> > > Josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joseph C. Kennedy
> > on Buffalo Bayou in West Houston
> > Josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx
> >
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