Hey Bird, Jinman and all other Texanites!!

[thcri]

What is the Edwards Aquifier? I overheard some about it in a conversation next to me.


Murph

Edit, I guess if I type it right in my search engine I would have found it easier. Kind of neat though. Will have to spend more time reading it tonight.

Edwards Aquifer

 

[txdon]

Murph, It is the underground water supply that fills one of my favorite swimming holes in Austin, Barton Springs.

 

[daedong]

These basins are amazeing, here is another.

http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/water/gab/

 

[Bird]

Yep, you've already found a place that explains it a lot better than I could. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif And it really is quite interesting.

 

[Wil]

Leave it to an Aussie to post a response about Australia when some one asks about Texas. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
In Texas it's the Limestone that makes the Edwards Aquifer what it is. Try this link: http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/
Didn't notice that you had already answered your own question with the link above. Transplanted Texan

 

[jinman]

Murph, you've already found the best resource for information on the Edwards Aquifer. In the North Texas area, most of our groundwater resources come from the Trinity Sands Aquifer. All across the Cross Timbers region of this state there is a wide variation in soil types extending into the black soils of the Grand Prairies south and east of Dallas. The one common feature seems to be high calcium content. Almost all of North Central Texas relies on the Trinity Sands for well water. Of course, we also have many surface water reservoirs which supply most of the water for the urban areas.

...not what you really asked, but when I turn on my tap, I get water from the Trinity Sands about 400' feet below my property. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[texbaylea]

TxDon

Barton Springs was great when I was in Graduate School at UT in the late '50's but it sure felt cold when you first got in. Austin was a great place to live then. Our last home seemed way out in the country then but no more.

Vernon

 

[btolle]

Others have answered about what the Edwards Aquifer is.

/diatribe/
I will throw a little more "fat on the fire". The Edwards Aquifer story is an example of how the Sierra Club has used the Endangered Species Act to control things in this country to their own liking.

Read Laws and Regulations Applicable to the Edwards Aquifer for a story of convulted thinking and federal judges who overstep their authority by forcing states to enact laws. Federal Judges are appointed, not elected, but they seem to ignore the Constitution when it comes to the part about only those elected by and answerable to the people shall make laws.

"In the 1993 ruling, Judge Bunton also announced the Texas Legislature had to enact a regulatory plan to limit withdrawals from the Aquifer or he would implement his own plan"

I am not saying that the aquifer should be allowed to be pumped dry without any concern for the future but I do object to some appointed federal judge thinking that he can make laws at his own whim or arbitrarily confiscate resources that belong to the people.
/end diatribe/

Bill Tolle