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Will The Well Run Dry? County Looks At North Escambia Water Systems
July 8, 2009
When you turn on the faucet, you expect the water to come out. But just how much water can your local water company provide before the tap runs dry?
That’s an important question in the planning for the future in Escambia County. That’s why the county commission is taking a look at the capacity of the water companies that serve the county, including the smaller franchises in the North Escambia area, as part of their Comprehensive Plan Annual Report. The report takes look at elements such road capacity, mass transit, sanitary sewer, sold waste, drainage, recreation areas and population estimates.
The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority is the primary supplier of drinking water in southern Escambia County, including Pensacola Beach. The northern half of the county is served by eight smaller water companies.
Information that the commission will review on Thursday shows that the eight small water companies have plenty of capacity of meet North Escambia’s water demands. Each of the eight companies can currently provide at least one million gallons more per day than they currently deliver.
The smallest system, the Walnut Hill Water Works, has a design capacity of 1,116,000 gallons per day. Currently, the system is delivering an average of 171,426 gallons of water per day, giving the system a potential 944,574 gallons per day in reserve.
The largest system of the non-ECUA systems, the People’s Water Service, has the capacity to pump 4,860,000 gallons of drinking water per day, but is only delivering 2,747,000 gallons daily. That leaves 2,386,000 gallons of excess daily capacity.
ECUA has a design capacity to deliver 86,180,000 gallons of water per day. ECUA currently delivers 34,113,000 gallons of water daily, leaving an excess capacity of 52,067,000 gallons.
The water capacities for each of the eight water systems in North Escambia are listed below:
Pictured top: The moon sets behind one of the water towers in the Walnut Hill Water Works system. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
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9 Responses to “Will The Well Run Dry? County Looks At North Escambia Water Systems”
Mike, I went back and re-read an article that was posted on Northescambia.com about the Nuclear Plant a couple of months ago and below are the locations of land that was purchased by Gulf Power for possilbe locations for building one.
If you will look, there is only one location (#2) that is near a River, the rest are dry on ground! It would make sense that they would use option #2, but then I’m thinking that we won’t know what they decide until after the fact.
1) 308 acres off Holland Road (where Cox Road formerly ran) from the Estes Estate, $1,000,000
2) 55 acres in two parcels near Courtney Road, including access to the Escambia River, from Campbell Partners, $202,380
3) 1.89 acres at 1570 Cox Road from Jonathan and Aimee Cabral, $145,000
4) 62 acres near the north end of Cox Road, between Cox and Camp roads, from Alex Davis of Pensacola, $248,000
5) 33 acres just south of 1570 Cox Road from Jean McCurdy Roose of Arizona, $117,250
6) 20 acres west of Roose parcel with just a small access to Cox Road, from Wesley and Victoria Henderson of Cantonment, $90,000
7) 100 acres in two parcels in the 200 block of Roach Road, $400,000
On Nuclear Power plants using ground water. WRONG!
There is a reason that they are near rivers or large lakes. They use the river water, bays, or in a couple of cases large lakes for cooling.
Its just economics its more expensive to pull that much out of the ground when its almost free by comparison to use a river. They don’t even need it very clean just minor filtering.
Mmmm! Sounds pretty fishy to me. We at the eastside of the Northend Can’t hardly get any county money. It is as we don’t exsist. We don’t have even a city Limit over here. Put Pensacola can make the dissions who our kids and grandkids can go to school with. Our local officals is a joke. Or bought off. But now!!!! Some how the people of Pensacola ECUA has come to some kind of sense that we Pea on’s in lillte ol Walnut Hill is sitting on a GOLD-MINE. It’s called ” WATER” and plenty of it………………Sorry we can’t Help you!!!!! Just like City of Pensacola has told us in the past!…………………..Sorry we can’t Help you! sign with love ” Back at you”
Aubrey, when reading the article above, the Nuclear Power plant issue entered my mind too!
We all know that when a company has plenty of money and clout behind it, they are going to get their way no matter the cost. They probaby will want to tap into the well waters for their benefits and put all of us northend residents on Pensacola turd water.
Thanks William for listening out for these very important issues concerning the northend that are usually hush hush and we are usually the last ones to know about them, until it’s too late!
Hey Folks,
This could be an effort to see what water reserves are out there in conjunction with the possible Nuc Plant. Gulf Power could be behind this by evaluating the total amount of water in the area . There has to be a certain amount of water to cool these reactors at all times and if the underground water tables are tapped to cool the reactors; will there be enough reserves to supply the population of the north end of the county!!! Lets do our homework folks !!!!
First I have to wonder why the County Commissioners are looking at the overall water service capacities. Current county average daily flow is only 38% of design capacity. Not counting private well in use capacities. But with a 62% available capacity I don’t see a pressing need to make this an issue of concern.
However, if there is some economic development issue not in the sunshine as of yet for north Escambia County, there might be a reason. However in watching the recent ecomonic development planning meeting, one would wonder if there is any meaning economic development going on, since the cities and county still can’t find concensus in who or in what form the economic development program should be handled.
The Players seem to be the private business sector, Chamber of Commerce, Cities and county. One thing we surely have in this county besides wtaer capacity is plenty of messed up politics.
One more time people, salt water is being found all the way to Nine Mile Road, the treatment to make it potable (drinkable) is expensive, see where this is going. The north end is the red headed step child until they need us. You can live without phone, electricity, and even cable, but without water YOU DIE. Simple as that. Get your priorities balanced and understand how important your local water system is to your own community. Participate in meetings, voice your opinion my voting out the double tongued liars who promise one thing and do something else. Protect what is your communities or sit back and watch how quickly your faucet does run dry.
Ok boys, when the ECUA name is mentioned you better check you check book!! I can see it now ECUA can better run the county if all the “smaller water system” would turn their system over to them. I remember the waste management deal, that now cost me more money with less service. This is just my forward thinkiing!!
Don’t they need to take all the people on private wells into account for future use? I’m assuming they’ll “require” us at some point to hook up and pay.