Dan.... thanks for the encouraging words... sounds great... Tell Larry next
time you see him that there are a number of us out here that appreciate his
efforts.... Keith
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> From: Daniel Wright <daniel.wright@genetics.utah.edu>
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Salt report
> Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 10:12 AM
>
> Hi
> At the USFRA monthly meeting last Thursday, Larry Volk the chairman of
Save
> the Salt, Gave us an update on the pumping project. He said that Riley's
> pumps had been running 24 hours a day since Nov. pumping hi concentration
> brine. To their credit, Riley has been living up to their agreement.
Last
> year the project was troubled by many start-up problems resulting in a
lot
> of pump down time, and the pumping of very low salt concentration brine.
I
> don't recall the exact figures that he gave, but he said that in November
> they pumped more hours and better quality brine than was pumped all year
> last year and they have been pumping steadily ever since. According to
his
> calculations, over a million tons of Salt will have been deposited this
> year by the pumping. He had just returned from an inspection of the
> project and had with him a surveyors post that he had removed from the
> brine at the end of the road, that was encrusted with salt several inches
> thick that gave us our first look at the quality of the salt being
> returned, and it sure looked good to me. The installation of monitoring
> equiptment by the BLM has been very slow. But it is nearly in place now
> and for next years pumping we will have data from a flow meter and a
> conductivity meter (indicates salt concentration) that will give us more
> accurate info on how much is pumped and what the salt content is.
> Currently there is only an hour meter to indicate pump run time.
> As for the outlook for Salt conditions this fall, there are currently
> several inches of water covering the Salt, which is normal for this time
of
> year. Last year set state records for the amount of rainfall here, with
a
> lot of it coming in the summer months (it was an El Nino thing). If our
> weather patterns are more nearly normal, I expect a quality racing
surface
> in August and Sept.
> I will take a few notes during the salt report at the next monthly
meeting,
> and will keep you updated. We most always hear from someone that has
been
> out recently.
> Dan
> "Its our Salt and we want it back"
> Dan
>
> daniel.wright@genetics.utah.edu
>
> Daniel Wright
> University of Utah
> Dept. of Human Genetics
> 20 S 2030 E
> Salt Lake City, UT 84112
> 801-585-7863
> Fax 801-585-7177
>
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