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The process is called aquifer storage and recovery, and it involves capturing water during times of plenty, storing it underground and pulling it out later when its needed. Its a strategy used a lot in the western and southeastern parts of the country, where drought and water shortages are common. There are hundreds of these storage wells operating in the United States; the project in St. Michael is the first in Minnesota.
This is the first year where the project has been fully up and running, said Kelly Daleiden, project manager for Veolia Water, which operates the well and other joint water efforts for the three cities. The water will be pumped out of the aquifer this summer, when residents want it for lawn watering and drinking. Its interesting, she said. The water comes out just like it went in for the most part.
People across the country are managing groundwater differently as drought, contamination and other factors cause supplies to dwindle. Even in Minnesota, where aquifers were once thought to be limitless in their bounty, cities and regulators are bumping up against limitations and, by necessity, developing new systems.
In St. Michael, Albertville and Hanover, the problem wasnt a strained aquifer, but rather a strained water-treatment plant. In the winter, water demand is just over a million gallons a day. But during the summer lawn-watering season, demand spikes to between 6 and 8 million gallons, near the limit of what the plant can produce. City leaders looked at their rapidly growing communities the population in St. Michael rose 80 percent between 2000 and 2010 to 16,000 and considered building an additional plant.
But then they talked with a consulting company with offices in Iowa, a state with several underground storage systems, and realized that instead of spending $5 million or more on a new treatment plant and related wells and tower, the cities could spend just around $2 million to build a system that would store treated water in a bubble underground.
When we were looking at the best bang for our buck, building another treatment plant to sprinkle lawns didnt seem like the logical thing to do, said St. Michael city administrator Steve Bot. Thats whats great about (underground storage). We already have a plant that can produce well above our winter usage. We have all this extra capacity in the plant you are only using during the summertime. Now, we are able to use that capacity.
Here is how the process works:
Water is filtered and treated, with manganese and iron removed and fluoride and a type of bleach added. Then the water is injected 500 feet underground, via a stainless-steel tube, into the Mount Simon aquifer, where it displaces existing water and remains pretty much in one place until needed. The sandstone aquifer is akin to a bucket of sand and rocks that have been cemented by time. Water there moves slowly, perhaps only several feet per year. When its pulled back out, all it needs is a little added bleach and its ready for consumption.
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Kindergartners Jacobi Olivaras, left, Daelin Krutsinger and Allan Robison play on the jungle gym at University Hill Elementary on Thursday. The school recently was awarded a $100,000 Great Outdoors Colorado grant to build a new playground and add other outdoor features. (Mark Leffingwell / Daily Camera)
University Hill Elementary School's aging kindergarten and preschool playground is getting a nature-inspired makeover.
The school recently was awarded a $100,000 Great Outdoors Colorado grant to build a new playground and add other outdoor features.
Altogether, GOCO awarded $659,115 to eight school play yard projects across the state using lottery proceeds. The grants require the schools to partner with local governments; University Hill is partnering with Boulder's Parks and Recreation Department.
Last year, 16 schools also won $1.5 million in the first round of school play yard GOCO grants, including Boulder's Horizons K-8.
Horizons is using the money to build a new adventure and nature play space after losing much of its playground in a remodel. The remodel left only one play structure for 340 students, and the school's playground was the only one in the Frasier Meadows neighborhood.
Tina Briggs, of Boulder's Parks and Recreation Department, said the city is excited about working with another school.
"It provides additional opportunities for play in the neighborhood," she said. "Nature play will be a really fantastic addition."
Principal Ina Rodriguez-Myer said University Hill's PTA has been "saving and saving" to pay for playground improvements. But with more than half the students qualifying for federally subsidized lunches, she said, raising the needed money hasn't been quick.
The grant allows the school to tackle the most pressing need, the preschool and kindergarten playground, she said. The playground equipment is old, not made for students that young and wouldn't meet codes if installed today.
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Smoke from land clearing fires in Indonesia causes hazardous haze pollution in South East Asia every year. Record high levels of air pollution caused by haze were reached in June 2013 in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. In response to regional pressure after the latest haze crisis, Indonesia has finally agreed to adopt the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution from 2002. However, given the pact's weak compliance provisions, will the ratification really be a game-changer in South East Asia's struggle with haze?
In June 2013 South East Asia was suffocating in a cloud of record-breaking haze pollution. The haze, toxic smog caused by fires to clear land for agriculture in Sumatra, Indonesia, exceeded almost three times the hazardous limit for air quality. For a week the most affected areas of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia resembled a post-apocalyptic scene people only dared go out with face masks, schools were closed, the economy took a hit as businesses suspended work, events were cancelled, tourists stayed clear of the area and hospitals faced a surge of respiratory illnesses. The fires also impact climate change because they produce large amounts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the burning of carbon-rich peatland and forests. To illustrate the magnitude of the problem: the land-clearing fires which cause transboundary haze are also the biggest contributor to Indonesias overall GHG emissions. 2013 may have been the worst haze crisis in the region's recorded history, but similar occurrences are the norm during 'haze season' every year since the 1980s.
In 2002, ASEAN member countries addressed the environmental issue by adopting the world's first regional agreement against haze the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution. The Agreement is a legally binding regional environmental treaty that aims to prevent and mitigate haze pollution 'through concerted national efforts and intensified regional and international cooperation'. Unfortunately, two big problems reduce the effectiveness of the Agreement. The first is that Indonesia, the only ASEAN member state yet to ratify the Agreement, is also the main polluter. The second problem concerns the design of the Agreement, which has a weak mechanism for dispute settlement and punishing non-compliance. The Agreement does not prescribe specific sanctions against a signatory country that has infringed its obligations. Instead, Article 27 of the Agreement feebly states that any disputes over non-compliance 'shall be settled amicably by consultation or negotiation'. In other words, enforcing the Agreement, even over countries that have ratified it, remains a matter of diplomacy, rather than law. It would not provide suffering countries and people with new legal remedies in future outbreaks of haze pollution.
The fact that the transboundary haze problem is not resolved for almost three decades is a testament to the complexity and magnitude of the interests and issues behind it.
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