Electric Water Boy

I have some issues with this...

1. "This lake is man-made and was constructed to cool a power plant."

True. It wouldn't be there otherwise. All lakes in Texas with the exception of Caddo are manmade.

2. "It used to have mercury in the water which is extrmely dangerous; especially in fish. They finally got the mercury levels down to make the fish edible."

There is still mercury there, but at levels far below any standards. Mercury is some bad stuff. If it were at levels above any standards, fishing would be cut off. Have to wonder about the getting the mercury levels down thing. That was done how?

3. "The water itself IS INDEED WASTEWATER! "

There's some truth to that. Water is pimped out of the San Antonio River into both Braunig and Calaveras. The river is used as a pipeline to get treated water from the treatment plants.

4. "The SA River Authority pumps treated wastewater into Calaveras to cool the plant."

No they don't. CPS Energy does.

5. "They save money this way "

Only in the sense that it isn't being pumped out of the aquifer. That'd be bad for all of us. And the water out of the river isn't free either.

6. For those of you that don't excatly know what waste water is; it is everything that goes down the drain and toilet bowls. They sipher it out, chlorinate it, and pump it to Calaveras and Braunig Lake. So all that water you see used to have fecies, detergents, urination, raw sewege, etc.....

There's more to it than that. But the water coming out of the treatment plants is CLEANER than what's already in the river. Even so, once it's in the lake, all the fish, snakes, birds, racoons, and turtles are using it as a bathroom too.

7. "That's why it is so dark."

Nope. It's dark now because of all the algae growing. It's somewhat dark the rest of the time, especially in the summer, because of evaporation. When the water evaoprates, all the stuff in it (algae, minerals, etc) are left behind. It concentrates. Only way to get rid rid of it is to open the dam gates and flush it out. Only time that happens is when there are big rains. Even so, it's like putting a bandaide on an amputation. To get rid of half the solids you'd half to drain a lot more than half the lake, and that ain't going to happen, at least not in any kind of timely manner.

Sorry f this seemed like an an attack, but I hear/see lots of statements made about the lakes that aren't true, but are repeated by people with good intentions. The only way to slow them down is to put out the truth.