Actually, "straight into the aquifer" is a fairly good description of
how recharge to the Edwards aquifer works..........


On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:24:15 GMT, "Molly Fredericks"
wrote:

No. They don't "go straight into the aquifer" you frickin idiot.



"spdf" wrote in message
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Doug McLaren wrote:

To
not allow Wal-Mart to build there just because of the aquifer seems a
bit silly

The problem with building over the recharge zone isn't that
you will somehow "block off" water from getting into the
aquifer. The water gets in there no matter what you do. The
problem is that Wal-Mart draws enormous amounts of traffic,
which deposit all sorts of automotive pollutants, and when it
rains, all those pollutants go straight into the aquifer.

Homes are different from Wal-Mart because homes are rather
small sources of pollution, whereas Wal-Mart is a whopping
huge one. All those homes probably contribute less pollution
to the aquifer in a year than a Wal-Mart would in a day.