The Tulsa Forum by TulsaNow

How do you feel about the local paper providing a database of who lives at what address, where you live and how much water you used last year ? Granted your name has to be on the water bill and with most of us, our information is already out there but doesn't this go too far?

Kinda blew me away that RM used over 270,000 gallons last year. Must be for watering those highway trees ( against city guidlines) or have great party pool ;D

You stalking me? Please stop.

Yes. I have a pool and a sprinkler system to water an acre and a half backyard.

Average is 86,000 gallons? Wow.

I'm less than a third of that.

I also planted and watered 50 new trees last year after PSO took out 10 mature trees last year. Yes, I used a lot of water last year. I have a large backyard filled with gardens and plants that take a lot of water. I also have five people living in my home and threw big pool parties. When you have 24 kids in the pool at a party, you should also flush the pool system.

RM, have you ever looked into a rainwater catchment system? It'd be a good option for your plants.

 I saw something about that a week or so ago on Victory Gardens , pretty neat setup...

The first time I saw a Cistern was a house in Maple Ridge.  Neat idea but make sure the kids dont play around it.

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.

Hah, my total water usage for the year wouldn't have been enough to fill your pool.  :o

That new washer, dryer, and dishwasher really save on the water.

It would be interesting if the World were able to provide a monthly breakdown, but it would be even creepier than it already is.

I ended up with 39,000! I'm surprised, too, since I had my sprinklers going quite often trying to keep my relatively new yard and my new trees from dying.

So whats next, is the paper going to open up our PSO, Cable and ONG bills? How far can it go?

You waster of water. My SO and I used 19,000 gallons. (Yes, we bathe regularly  :P)

This thing is terrible. It does make it a lot easier to figure out who has a pool, though.

MDepr: Last I checked, all of those services were provided by private companies, thus are not subject to open records requests.

Pool or a lot invested in green vegetation they they don't want to turn brown.

"Regularly" implies but does not guarantee a short time interval. Once a month, every month, is regularly.    :P back at ya.

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

I'm unable to find said database...   
Removed?

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

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

top of the story...

Plastic?

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

Thats a lot of water!

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.

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.

You are my new pool boy.

I work cheap, cold Marshalls.

TMI.

The visual just blinded me.

(http://www.completelynaked.org/in_puris_naturalibus/images/poolboy.jpg)

We appear to be the same build....

From the waist up.

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 :D

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

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

They have several different meters, it's over 100 million a year.

Sinclair used 1.109 billion on one meter at it's refinery

Trigen, the steam and chill water plant downtown went through 79.8 million gallons of water

St. Francis Hospital 219 million

St. John's has a lot of meters, looks like about 67 million on the main hospital

I can't find Big Splash, that'd be interesting.  One could waste a lot of time on that DB.

14M gallons.

http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/money-belt-is-megawet.html

Marshall Brewing has two entries that combine to 408,000 gallons.

It's never a perfect TNF thread until Marshall's is invoked.  Thank you sir!

Going to have to check for leaks, DB says we used 77,000 gallons, that can't be right even with watering the garden in the summer.

Check and see if your meter is turning with everything off.....

I'll make sure I stock up on Marshalls this spring, I'm sure I'll need some advise

Hard to believe, I only used 39,000 at my old house with a pool.  Curious if that was a partial year since I moved out the end of May.  They still showed my old address on the database.

I thought it was outrageous.