Saturday, February 6, 2010

PIPELINE TO A POLLUTED LAKE

A new infrastructure pipeline for water transport will bring water from Lake Palestine to Dallas and connect all reservoirs including Mountain Creek Lake and Joe Pool Lake-to be completed by 2018.
What a surprise!
I figured water from Mountain Creek Lake would be used for natural gas drilling then (forever fracked and radioactive) stored underground before it would be tied in to Dallas resevoir water. Have we become desparate enough for water to look in Oak Cliff/Grand Prairie? From what I read, we may be getting to that point.
I'd feel better about the pipeline if Dallas hired an environmental clean up company to vacuum up the silt and chemicals embedded in sediment at the MCL bottom, wouldn't you? This is how it works, according to pictures of filthy lakes being cleaned in China (of all places!) A company floats and anchors a platform on the water with vacuuming equipment and the suctioned sediment travels through hoses to trucks, or to a disposal area where it could be treated or buried and capped.
Wouldn't it be fair and proper for the Navy, TXU-Exelon-Luminant, and Vought - Superfund club members surrounding the polluted lake to pay for such clean up? That would be a little stimulus package for Dallas, though our groundwater and aquifer in the area have been RUINED FOREVER by the trio.
Think about it, Dallasites. The Navy - particularly - has gotten off pretty easy after doing a billion + dollars of damage to our city's Naval bases and lake; but of course it's not too late to leave a more honorable legacy. You'd think the power company, which still owns part of the lake, would be all for this idea...But, for some reason, things stay quiet on the toxic west Dallas lake front where no one makes waves-literally; and all guilty parties continue industrial pursuits and profits with no comment on the environment except maybe "we're going green" now...
NOW - Yesterday is in the rearview mirror, and it always helps if the property changes hands, meets a new boss who appeals for a more favorable classification and everyone MOVES ON. The only problem is that the toxic land and water stay the same, and thus, so does our community and our health problems.

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