Exelon still holding on to Guadalupe water

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Exelon still holding on to Guadalupe water
Web Posted: 07/11/2009 12:00 CDT
By Anton Caputo - Express-News

Exelon Energy's plans to build two nuclear reactors near Victoria may be on hold, but it hasn't stopped the power company from reserving the rights to 75,000 acre-feet of precious Guadalupe River water for another year — and maybe longer.

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Farmers and cities that hold junior rights, like Victoria and Kerrville, have been cut off from river water at times during the drought and forced to rely more on well water.

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The Exelon deal makes no sense to Victoria area rancher David Huber, 61, who has watched the Guadalupe and the nearby San Antonio River dwindle over the past two years. The river's authority's most recent drought report showed the Guadalupe's flow near Victoria is 187 cubic feet per second, about 18 percent of its average flow.

“As far as water down here, we just don't have it,” he said. “It's as bad as I've seen it in my lifetime. The whole point is the '50s drought was not as bad. If we didn't have mesquite and huisache, the cattle would be starving.”

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This nuclear plant, if it ever gets built, will make droughts worse.
So will global warming.

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1. We live not far from the head waters of the Guadalupe and only

a quarter mile from a low river crossing. We live 6 miles out of Kerrville. We are on restricted water useage now.

Thank you so much for posting this! I hate to say this but, I had no idea. I DO now, thanks to you.

Going now to read the entire article.

[snappyturtle]

2. I read the rest of the article along with the comments. I have to

agree with one poster who sited Fl and NH sites which use ocean water to cool reactors. We did get 1.75 inches of rain about ten days ago....Godsend but SA is down over seven inches on the year so far and were way down last year too. What the total decifit is I don't know but it's a lot. SO glad we decided during the dry spring not to plant a garden...some towns around here only allow watering by hand, no sprinklers, from midnight to six A.M. Other than water for the chickens and deer we don't use any extra. I think water will in the future become the 'oil' of today. Gotta get our rain collection system going. That rain we got would have given us a lot. The storm that accompanied the rain hit the power on the AquaTexas site and we awoke the next morning to no water. THAT really brings one into reality.

[thunder rising]

3. I think building nuke plants in drought prone areas is a WINNER