This story is about as mundane, about as boring, about as sterile a story as one could find to post, but it's the headline story in today's Williston Herald on-line.
The county commissioners approved a new commercial water depot for water trucks taking water for fracking.
It's hard to believe but all this time, there was but one such tap in Williston, until now (to the best of my knowledge), and trucks lined up, I assume for hours, to get their 7,500 gallons of fresh water. Folks complain about infrastructure and even to make relatively small improvements seems to be a challenge. That was one of the first things I noticed when I visited Williston last summer: that single water tap.
Well, whatever, it looks about ready to change.
[Update: see comments below. I was wrong. There are many water depots in / around Williston. I was just aware of the one public water depot; never realized there were so many private depots. But it makes sense. Thanks to "Rusty" for setting the record straight. It's funny that wasn't mentioned in the article; I wonder why this "new" depot is getting so much attention? No doubt there are folks worried about new competition.]
You can check out one water depot owner on facebook and twitter ames water depot and @ameswaterdepot
ReplyDeletethere are at least twenty privately owned water depots in the williston area.
ReplyDeleteone depot owner is on face book as Ames Water Depot and twitter as @ameswaterdepot.
this post system is confusing. especially from a celluar phone.
ReplyDeletedon't put this one up please.
sorry i posted the same comment so many times. i just couldn't figure it out.
Thank you. I did not realize that. I just saw that one Williston public depot down by the railroad tracks and thought that was it, but I had to admit, I couldn't imagine that one depot supplying all the local water trucks. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThe corp here is not the corp u know from overseas. The corp here is a special interest environmental group.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I'm getting that impression (about the Corps).
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, of the three services (Army, Navy, Air Force), the US Army knows best how to keep very good relations with the President of the United States, regardless of who is president. The Army will align itself very quickly with the President. In this case, what you say about the Corps makes sense.
I hope state legislators see how aggressive the Feds have become in meddling in personal lives and state issues; and, the likely unintended consequences.