In article ,
Terry Horton wrote:
| On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:31:40 GMT, (Doug McLaren)
| wrote:
|
| In article ,
| animaux wrote:
|
| | I love my Walmart stock. I love that people can buy goods at a very
| | affordable price, but again I ask, do we really need one every few
| | miles in any direction? In this particular instance, do we need one
| | over the aquifer?

Wal-Mart thinks so. And the law allows them to do so.

I don't think Wal-Mart grew as big as they have by building stores
that people don't shop at ...

| This has been brought up before -- the aquifer is huge, many hundreds
| of square miles.
|
| Tired, thread-bare anti-enviro lingo, "But the _____ is so big it
| won't matter how much _____ we pollute it with."

That wasn't my point. What I was really getting at is if you can't
build stores on it, where can you build them?

Here's a map of the Edwards Aquifer for you --

http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/

It's hard to tell exactly, but it looks like the aquifer and recharge
zone make up about 15% of Travis County, and as you go west, it's even
larger.

I guess Bandera county doesn't deserve a Wal-Mart at all! They're all
aquifer! They'll have to drive to the south side of San Antonio for
their discount consumer goods.

| People in Circle C need Wal Marts too!
|
| Oh please. It takes 10 minutes for me to get to Circle C, and there's
| a Wal-Mart between here and there. Such hardship.

Yes, but that Wal-Mart is probably on the aquifer too. All of
southwest Travis county is on the aquifer.

--
Doug McLaren,
Serial Port (Seer e al Port) : Where ships stop to deliver their tasty
breakfast morsels.