Ankeny water ban

[chuckd4735]

so do they use cooling towers or some other sort of heat exchangers? just curious how they cool the water down in a closed loop system at those places?

I'm definitely not the person to answer. I'm my limited involvement with them at the local level, I know most used closed loops so overall consumption is not great.

 

[Letterkenny]

S/o to all the fear mongers online, an older lady at my office came into work scared that the DSM drinking water was going to be deemed no longer safe because of what she read on Facebook.

The water is perfectly fine and anyone trying to tell you otherwise needs to seek help.

I'm not personally worried about it myself, but it's not like there is zero history of local governments lying about the "safety" of their tap water. It's understandable some people aren't going to trust it.

 

[Turn2]

Chris Jones (@theswinerepublic.bsky.social)

1.1 million pounds of nitrate-nitrogen will pass through the city of Cedar Rapids today in the Cedar River. That's equivalent to the contents of 322 of these. One day, one river, in Iowa...

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[BWRhasnoAC]

Sorry, misunderstood what you were saying. Regardless, the point is we have all made data centers a giant priority, and their demand is huge. These things are heavily competitive and backed politically with some pretty heavy incentives.

This is like the smoking ban in Iowa where casinos get an exception.

They're annoying. I don't think they even pay taxes for another 10 years here. Plus they only give us a handful of jobs compared to their size.

 

[houjix]

They're annoying. I don't think they even pay taxes for another 10 years here. Plus they only give us a handful of jobs compared to their size.

They put a lot of people to work during design and construction, but yes, they only have a small amount of permanent jobs per building once completed.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

They put a lot of people to work during design and construction, but yes, they only have a small amount of permanent jobs per building once completed.

So basically no return besides the initial construction.

 

[TitanClone]

So basically no return besides the initial construction.

They do provide very few full time on site jobs but provide a lot of electrical work. Still pennies relative to size and the revenue they produce. The Google data center in Council Bluffs was a catalyst for Echo Electric Suplly's huge expansion over the past 15ish years that led to a massive sale last year to Sonepar.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

They do provide very few full time on site jobs but provide a lot of electrical work. Still pennies relative to size and the revenue they produce. The Google data center in Council Bluffs was a catalyst for Echo Electric Suplly's huge expansion over the past 15ish years that led to a massive sale last year to Sonepar.

Ya, so enriching one entity.

 

[CYEATHAWK]

Most of this right now is because of high nitrates in rivers, lakes and reservoirs, that the cities are sourcing their water from, but another huge issue is starting to pop up and is going to ruin a lot more peoples water.

With Iowa's Karst topography, more and more of the pollutants are making or going to make their way into the ground water and aquafers. This is a huge issue and if we don't do something very soon everyone's water is going to be unfit.

Most counties now recommend water testing every year, because wells are starting to show up polluted. This is a major concern considering we are talking both private and public water sources all over the state.

Its time to realize just because hog **** is less concentrated it is still not healthy, because all that happens is because it is less concentrated way more is applied in order to reach the same concentration levels as chemicals. And last I checked no one is drinking glasses of hog ****, because its "organic". The amount of hog **** spread across Iowa is insane. Hogs produce way more waste than humans. I realize there is a study that compares waste water from humans and says that humans produce more, but that is just ingenuous because it includes gray water etc, like showers, hand washing, dish washing and other non waste black water. Hogs produce way more waste per hog and we have more than 10 times the amount of hogs in Iowa. I actually had the numbers somewhere, but cant find it right now. If I remember right its like 11 times the amount of crap from one hog than one human per day.

Think of this, what would the state be like if we had 10 times the people, a couple hundred million, think of the waste in the state, now think of if we just dumped that waste on the ground with no treatment, like we do hog ****. That is the equivalent of 30-50 million hogs amount of waste in the state we have.

Its insane, I get it we all love our bacon, but there has to be a limit. We cant produce the entire worlds amount of pork in just Iowa. Enough is enough. Let China produce and pollute their country, we dont need to provide them with all their pork and pollute ours.

Yes, I know there are some hog farmers and other farmers that spread this **** on the land like its frosting, here that are going to be pissed about this, but it is the truth, sorry.

Iowa, the entire state........................Karst topography? Do you know what the ph in dolomite and limestone does to water when it seeps through?

And WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING or the water is going to be unfit?

Your post^^^^ has a much higher nitrate level than Iowa's water.

 

[BigTurk]

Iowa, the entire state........................Karst topography? Do you know what the ph in dolomite and limestone does to water when it seeps through?

And WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING or the water is going to be unfit?

Your post^^^^ has a much higher nitrate level than Iowa's water.

Actually I don't. Could you explain please or provide a link?

 

[NorthCyd]

Here is a great free resource. Its called Iowa's Groundwater Basics. Some of you really should read it before you try to talk about the subject.

https://publications.iowa.gov/25497/

 

[JEFF420]

Here is a great free resource. Its called Iowa's Groundwater Basics. Some of you really should read it before you try to talk about the subject.

https://publications.iowa.gov/25497/

from 2003..... state has changed

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

There's not a lot of solid info because big AG doesn't want it to be known.

 

[NorthCyd]

from 2003..... state has changed

You're joking, right? You seem to be perpetually sarcastic but maybe not in this case.

 

[VeloClone]

Chris Jones (@theswinerepublic.bsky.social)

1.1 million pounds of nitrate-nitrogen will pass through the city of Cedar Rapids today in the Cedar River. That's equivalent to the contents of 322 of these. One day, one river, in Iowa...

bsky.app

No question this is a problem, but for context how many pounds of water passes through in a day? How many of those tanks is that?

 

[wxman1]

No question this is a problem, but for context how many pounds of water passes through in a day? How many of those tanks is that?

at 5PM on Saturday there was 15,800 cfs flow past the gauge in CR.

 

[VeloClone]

at 5PM on Saturday there was 15,800 cfs flow past the gauge in CR.

 

[Billups06]

at 5PM on Saturday there was 15,800 cfs flow past the gauge in CR.

1 cfs is roughly the equivalent of 7.48 gallons of waterflow per second. Equates to roughly 10 trillion gallons per day. No idea if that's correct.

 

[VeloClone]

1 cfs is roughly the equivalent of 7.48 gallons of waterflow per second. Equates to roughly 10 trillion gallons per day. No idea if that's correct.

And at roughly 8.34 lbs. per gallon that is 83.4 trillion lbs. since the nitrates/nitrogen were given in pounds in the posting.

 

[Turn2]

No question this is a problem, but for context how many pounds of water passes through in a day? How many of those tanks is that?

If the river is carrying 13 ppm of NO3 morning, noon and night that number can be calculated, but it’s pointless. We already know the water is above the standard, regardless of the amount.