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Stormzilla and the Value of Panhandle Groundwater

The Weather Channel is estimating that the storm that caused last week’s epic flooding in southeast Texas generated 6.5 TRILLION gallons of water.  Most of that water ended up in the Gulf of Mexico, where it’s probably doing some good.  So that water wasn’t entirely wasted.  But what if? What if we had a reservoir and pipeline system that allowed us to pump that water up the hill to the Texas Panhandle, where we could inject it into the Ogallala Aquifer as artificial recharge?  How much Panhandle crop production would that… Read More →