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>A key contract from 1909 said the Arrowhead source would supply a bottled-water company with seven train cars of water per week. Nestlé, which bought those rig

>A key contract from 1909 said the Arrowhead source would supply a bottled-water company with seven train cars of water per week. Nestlé, which bought those rights, said that tank cars from that era could hold 15,000 gallons. But Amanda Frye, a local activist, thought something was amiss, so she did some digging. After sifting through archives, she found buried in legal documents evidence that the actual train cars used carried 6,500 gallons—less than half what Nestlé claimed. >If the state water board is successful, it’s possible that Nestlé would only have rights to 2.36 million gallons of water per year, a far cry from the reported 58 million gallons last year. Am I missing something? The discrepancy seems to be on the order of 20 times, but the misestimation of train car size is only on the order of 2 times - where does the other factor 10 come from?

Smithalicious 5y ago
Doing the actual math on the number of train cars per week it seems like they simply misplaced a comma in the 2.36 million number, which should be 23.6 million - underestimating the amount of water Nestlé has rights to by 10x and making the situation seem much worse than it is.
- ac29 5y ago
  6500 gallons per car * 7 cars * 52 weeks = 2.366M
ac29 5y ago
So, the longer complaint alleges that not only did Nestle take twice as much as they were theoretically allowed from specific sources, they also took a significant amount from sources from which they were not authorized to take anything (at least according to the State). I dont see the the exact 58 million gallons number, which apparently refers to a specific year, but on page 12 it says "The average annual extraction was 189 AF from 1947 through 2018", which is ~61 million gallons. https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/enforcement/complaints/docs/nestle/4_23_2021_nestle_roi.pdf https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/prog...

Smithalicious 5y ago

Doing the actual math on the number of train cars per week it seems like they simply misplaced a comma in the 2.36 million number, which should be 23.6 million - underestimating the amount of water Nestlé has rights to by 10x and making the situation seem much worse than it is.

ac29 5y ago
6500 gallons per car * 7 cars * 52 weeks = 2.366M

ac29 5y ago

So, the longer complaint alleges that not only did Nestle take twice as much as they were theoretically allowed from specific sources, they also took a significant amount from sources from which they were not authorized to take anything (at least according to the State). I dont see the the exact 58 million gallons number, which apparently refers to a specific year, but on page 12 it says "The average annual extraction was 189 AF from 1947 through 2018", which is ~61 million gallons. https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/enforcement/complaints/docs/nestle/4_23_2021_nestle_roi.pdf https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/prog...