Tulsa World provides water usage database

[BKDotCom]

Google to the rescue
http://tulsaworld.com/wateruse

[RecycleMichael]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20100207_11_A1_Thisho38422

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[Red Arrow]

This is why I'm glad my grass and shrubs don't turn brown even if I don't water them.

Plastic?

[YoungTulsan]

DOUG PIELSTICKER   1550 E 27TH ST   74114   RES SINGLE FAMILY   IN - INSIDE CITY    3,701,000

Thats a lot of water!

[brianh]

Damn, I went to school 20 years ago with the kid whose dad just got called out in the paper for using four million gallons. Somehow I used 33k gallons, but aside from my 7 minute shower everyday I don't use much water. Hope I don't have a leak.

[Conan71]

Yes. I made a presentation to former Mayor Taylor on rain gardens and tried unsuccessfully to convince her to use stormwater management funds to subsidize a sale of rain barrels for residential use.

The majority of my water use is the pool. It is large (30,000) gallons and we struggled last year to get it clear early in the season. We flushed and flushed and poured way to many chemicals in the damn thing. I figured it cost me $1500 for five months of swimming.

At ten bucks a day, I made the kids swim.

Shock, clarifier, and good filtration.  Please tell me you aren't wasting money on liquid polymer type biocides, they won't work well under heavy bio-loading.  Call me this spring if you have trouble again and I'll be happy to help you out. Changing out the water and heavy flushing won't make a difference if everything else is out of whack.  You need residence time for the chemicals and good filtration.  I've owned two houses with pools (one 40K gal the other 15K gal) and seven years of my professional career were spent working as a regional manager with an chemical company specializing in industrial water treatment.  I was always amazed at what these snot-nosed kids at pool stores would try to sell me on.

[RecycleMichael]

You are my new pool boy.

[Conan71]

You are my new pool boy.

I work cheap, cold Marshalls.

[rwarn17588]

You are my new pool boy.

TMI.

[Townsend]

You are my new pool boy.

The visual just blinded me.

[Breadburner]

[Conan71]

We appear to be the same build....

From the waist up.

[YoungTulsan]

SUN OIL COMPANY   1602 S UNION AVE   74127   LARGE INDUSTRIAL   OT - OUTSIDE CITY    1,284,006,000

SINCLAIR TULSA REFINING CO    902 W 25TH ST   74107   LARGE INDUSTRIAL   OT - OUTSIDE CITY    1,109,940,000

Yes, that is in BILLIONS

Hope they aren't watering down the gas

[Conan71]

It takes a LOT of steam and evaporative cooling to refine oil.

[Breadburner]

What does the Pepsi bottling plant go through.....