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Here's something that I have always wondered, and I am hoping that someone on the board has an answer:
Was Charlotte's drinking water always supplied by Lake Norman?
Why not use groundwater to augment Charlotte's supply of drinking water. With all of the area recharge areas (undeveloped land), the underground aquifers should have an ample supply of water.
Anyone know if the City is looking in alternative drinking water supplies?
Here's something that I have always wondered, and I am hoping that someone on the board has an answer:
Was Charlotte's drinking water always supplied by Lake Norman?
Why not use groundwater to augment Charlotte's supply of drinking water. With all of the area recharge areas (undeveloped land), the underground aquifers should have an ample supply of water.
Anyone know if the City is looking in alternative drinking water supplies?
And, although I am a day early, Merry Christmas!
Charlotte's drinking water is supplied by Mountain Island Lake (downstream from Lake Norman). The lake between Lake Norman & Lake Wylie...all part of the Catawba River.
Charlotte used to pull drinking water from local creeks (Briar, Irwin) until a terrible drought in the early 1900s dried them up completely and Charlotte had to truck in water on railcars from the Catawba River.
The mayor at the time decided that Charlotte needed a more permanent water supply, so he said we were going to build works to pull water from the Catawba River proper. People thought he was crazy... after all, the Catawba River was waaaaaaay out in the country to the average Charlottean. But that's what he did, and that site is exactly where we get our water from today.
Any individual who wishes to have an alternative water supply is free to drill a well, but as a municipal supply I don't think the geology and aquifer type are conducive. When I think groundwater supply for municipalities, I think limestone geology (Pennsylvania).
It can be quite expensive to drill a well . . . and some areas in this region have water w/ concentrations of arsenic, wh/ is thought to be a carcinogen.
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