Wes, have they pumped anything since Oct 03??
whats the deal Wes, can you update us?
Joe :)
W S Potter wrote:
>Don't kid yourself. Reilly is selling NaCl as fast as they can. It's used
>in recycling aluminum at that plant between their ponds and Wendover. Road
>salt is magnesium chloride and that's what they spilled onto the south end
>of the course in 1993 and what they sell for winter use on roads. That
>doesn't clump up like sodium chloride. Salt Lake, Weber and Davis counties,
>because of lake effect snow, used a huge amount between Christmas and now.
>They take the phosphates and other minerals out and return the heavy brine
>to their evaporation ponds. What has been pumped back onto the racing
>surface is a very high percentage of NaCl but it comes from their most
>easily accessed ponds. The drought and their easily accessed brackish water
>from the wells they dug for the pumping project have been a problem the last
>couple of years. Not as much there. They have committed to continuing the
>pumping as a PR thing but I think it isn't over the 750,000 tons of salt
>they take off each year. The restoration project has never been a condition
>of their leases, always voluntary.
>
>Wes
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