The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1972 Page: 12 of 16
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The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Thursday, Aug. 10, 1972
Water Re-Use Study
Underway At Lubbock
LUBBOCK — Good, cheap
water is important any place,
but in the water-short West it
has the lure of a pot of gold.
Texas Tech University .
researchers believe the
increasing demand for high
quality water can be met in the
future only by multiple reuse
of available supplies. This is
common practice for industry,
but reuse for recreational
purposes requires a higher
quality water.
The university’s Water
Resources Center is ready to
undertake a project which
could lead to a valuable source
of good quality water —
municipal wastewater purified
in part by a natural process.
The national. Office of
Water Resources Research has
approved the project to “try
out” in miniature the Lubbock
Lakes Project designed to
provide seven recreational lakes
in the Yellowhouse Canyon
which runs through the city.
The research project should
determine the feasibility of
reusing municipal wastewater
for recreational purposes. An
advantage is that the
wastewater to be used not only
has been treated by
conventional processes for
sewage, but it also has been
used for irrigation purposes
prior to its use for recreation.
The cropland through which it
percolates helps to purify the
water by acting as a filter.
Principal investigators for
the project are two civil
engineers, Dr. Dan M. Wells,
who is director of Texas Tech
Water Resources Center and
the assistant director, Dr.
Robert M. Sweazy.
‘‘Throughout the
Southwest,” said Wells,
“increasing numbers of cities
are using treated municipal
wastewater for irrigation of
agricultural crops. Eighty
^municipalities in the West
Texas area, for example, use
wastewater for this purpose
how, and the practice is
Spreading to less arid regions of
.the country and is certain to
become more widespread in
the future.”
Sr In addition to irrigation
uses, however, the increasing
demand for high quality water,
according to Wells, “can be
met in the future only by
multiple reuse of available
supplies.”
The cost of conventional
treatment processes continues
to be prohibitive, he said, while
the process proposed by the
Texas Tech project offers
promise for multiple reuse with
practically no additional cost.
For the Lubbock lakes and
for the research project, the
wastewater to be used will have
been treated in a conventional
sewage plant and then used for
crop irrigation before it is
pumped out of the ground for
recreational uses.
The major handicap in the
use of such water is a heavy
concentration of nitrates left in
the water even after it
percolates through the soil.
Whether this will permit fish
growth and whether it will so
enrich the water that an
overabundance of plant growth
will result are factors to be
determined through the
research.
The project calls for a series
of nine small ponds to be built
on the Texas Tech farm on the
university campus. One row of
ponds will serve as a control
system with no treatment
provided. Conditions in two
other sets of ponds will be
varied from time to time to
test the effects of changed
physical or chemical conditions
on the water quality in the
system.
Additions which are to be
tested include increased
quantities of nutrients, urban
runoff which can be obtained
from a nearby play a lake,
treated sewage, copper sulfate
and ohter algacides to control
plant growth, and water
containing lower
concentrations of nitrate than
the pumped water.
Biological measures to
control populations of algae
also will be taken as well as any.
other tests which might appear
appropriate in determining
what might be necessary to get
a high enough water quality to
grow edible fish and provide
safety for swimming or other
water recreation.
Fish will be kept in each of
the ponds, and these will be
tagged for identification. Rates
of growth for the fish will be
measured periodically.
“The principal value of this
project,” Wells said, “will be to
provide invaluable guidance to
the City of Lubbock and many
other cities in the more arid
regions of the country that
contemplate reuse of water in
the future.”
In addition, he said, the
project should determine the
suitability of such reclaimed
wastewaters for higher use
purposes such as industrial or
even municipal supply.
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Maikell, Elgin L. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1972, newspaper, August 10, 1972; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth980470/m1/12/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.