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Swimming pools are huge and not often emptied. Homes usually pay ~$6,000 to fill a pool. 576,000 gallons / day is ~6000 people's daily usage. Wells have specif
by Scaevolus 9y ago
Swimming pools are huge and not often emptied. Homes usually pay ~$6,000 to fill a pool. 576,000 gallons / day is ~6000 people's daily usage.
Wells have specific recovery rates. I don't know whether the amount they're pumping will exceed that rate-- environmental studies should include that information.
- coolso 9y ago> Homes usually pay ~$6,000 to fill a pool. Where? I'm seeing anecdotes of an average of $100-300 to fill up a pool with a hose, and $1250 to bring a truck in.
- Rebelgecko 9y agoI think you need to double check those numbers. Last time I refilled a pool it was a maybe $250-$500, and that was with summer water rates in the middle of a desert. The average person's pool is definitely not 576,000 gallons (that's about 160 ft by 100 feet if your pool's mean depth is 5 feet). Even if it were, $8 per hcf seems high.
- Turing_Machine 9y ago> Homes usually pay ~$6,000 to fill a pool. Nonsense. Maybe in Phoenix or Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Not in Michigan.
- Zeta_Function 9y agoI don’t know anything about the price of water in any of those places, can you cite some numbers? By the way, why are you so passionate about this topic? You’ve made 17 comments on this thread, or 17% of all of the comments here as of this writing. Thst seems extreme to me. The one I’m responding to isn’t substantive, another is just a single word. Dominating a conversation with sheer volume seems extreme, and impolite.
- Turing_Machine 9y ago> You’ve made 17 comments on this thread, or 17% of all of the comments here as of this writing. Because I hate innumeracy.
- portofcall 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16759428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16759428 Following that through, you clearly hate being backed into a corner, and don’t mind engaging in “innacuracy” when it suits you.