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Mighty fine

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  1. I had not realized they moved from Pond Springs until a couple of weeks ago. That's where I picked up that SP5
  2. Touche. I think I'm going to start here and see how i like it before going through the trouble of converting it
  3. My working assumption is that I still need to do the parts swap.
  4. I found that used SP5 for a decent price and went ahead and got it. Going to wait until January and sbr it
  5. If I don't admit I have a gun buying addiction, then it's not a problem.
  6. https://hydromet.lcra.org/
  7. The Edwards and outcrops of the Trinity should see some appreciable recovery from this event. Down dip sections of the Trinity not so much.
  8. Guy at the store told me '59. I'm going to look up the serial number here in a minute Edit: confirmed
  9. Picked up a pre-64 model 70 in 264 win mag today. Merry Christmas to me
  10. My brother picked this up as a 6th birthday gift for my son. It's Birmingham Small Arms falling block .357, made in Australia. Don't know very much about it yet, but a pretty neat little gun
  11. Just a data point not wholly related to the topic, but a person can easily get sucked into a relatively small diameter gravity main. In 2020, there was a guy in Austin working in a manhole that was flowing and sucked him into a 18" line where he went for a ride until his body was recovered a few miles downstream at the plant.
  12. Between Wharton and Bay City. During the initial filling, a good bit of seepage discharge was observed on downstream side of the reservoir. A bentonite cut off wall was installed at beginning of construction, but there ended up being some sand pockets that weren't effectively cutoff which lead to the seepage issues. I know they're installing some relief wells to mitigate the seepage issue. I don't recall if they also ended up driving sheetpile on the interior of the ring dike.
  13. Under high pressure, goes BOOM
  14. At first I was intrigued, but that accounts handle and lack of link suggests fake news
  15. This one caught me off gaurd
  16. They'll have access to sufficient water once the Alliance Regional Water Authority finishes out construction of their Phase 1B, though the next phase will probably be coming up sooner than originally planned
  17. There's enough empty volume in Buchanan such that they don't have* to make releases. *subject to LCRAs management plan for the highland lake system
  18. I carry the 365 xmacro tacops with an enigma holster and am pleased with how easy it is to conceal.
  19. Here I was assuming you were either a lawyer or an engineer. Now I know, you're the BD guy
  20. 50% is high. It's been awhile since I looked at the averages, but I think net evap is on the order of 30-40 in/yr. But you're correct, ASR has the potential to cut those losses dramatically. That said, one of the technical challenges to ASR is protecting your stored water bubble. If the groundwater gradients are too steep (relatively high lateral movement), this can cause a portion of the stored water to move beyond the capture radius of the well, and that water is essentially 'lost'. On the most recent asr Class V injection well authorization I worked on, losses do to groundwater movement came in around 25%.
  21. For sure. And it can be a hard sale as it's not a new water supply but just firms up existing supplies.
  22. I know some entities around Houston are exploring this (capturing and injecting stormwater). The difficult part is that you have do some level of pretreatment before injecting. At a minimum this would involve knocking out suspended solids to prevent fouling of the formation. Beyond this, the state regs require that the injected water be of at least as 'good' of quality as the native groundwater. The technology is there, but the infrastructure requirements are substantial especially when considering that there may be extended periods of equipment/facility downtime.
  23. Except for the 75%+ portion of the dark red that's in the Guadalupe and San Antonio basin?
  24. It will be interesting to see what the state does here re: Aqua. There are two (at least) regulatory issues here. The first is with regards to the groundwater district being able to recover damages for the overpumping by Aqua, which will end up in court. The second is with regards to Aquas inability to maintain minium regulatory capacity in its public water supply system in violation of state law. I could see they're CCN being revoked, though doubt any entity will be willing to take it over.
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