How LARGE is a typical finished water bottling facility?

Q: How large is a typical finished water bottling facility that is bottling 1.61 acre feet per day like MAWC is permitted to bottle?

A: The proposed Crystal Geyser Water Bottling Plant that is in the photo at the bottom of the page,  is located in Mt. Shasta CA. (Was formally Coca-Cola.) According to the Crystal Geyser Web site, the plant intends to bottle 0.5 acre feet per day. 

According to measurements taken from Google Earth, the facility is approximately 700' by 214'.

The plant is visually about the size of a Walmart. (The Kalispell Walmart is 533' x 337'.)

In the DNRC Findings of Facts pg. 4, MAWC intends to bottle 588.08 acre feet per yr. When divided by 365 days = 1.61 acre ft. per day. So to bottle that much water, there would need to be 3 Wal-Mart size facilities located on Pederson Road, operating 24/7. 

(1.6 acre feet = 521362 gallons)

The beige MAWC “Steel Building” located on 405 Pederson Road would in no way provide a large enough facility to bottle the proposed amount of water.

 Is this a bait and switch from this?

 To this?  Or maybe times 3? (This could be coming to a neighborhood near you!)

The Crystal Geyser Plant is located at 214 Ski Village Dr. in Mt. Shasta CA. (Web Photo)

(The Mt. Shasta plant covers 3.4 acres.)

Note: During the previous Coca-Cola plant operations, the local residents reported they had well problems with water coming out with sand and dirt and no officials listening.

http://mountshastaecology.org/2015/05/09/water-crisis-local-activists-speak-out-crystal-geyser-eir-needed/

Water Crisis: Local Activists Speak Out – Crystal Geyser EIR Needed

Local activists from the MSBEC-sponsored W.A.T.E.R. group, the Gateway Neighborhood Association and others have been busy getting the word out about Crystal Geyser’s plans to start bottling water in the midst of an unprecedented drought.

http://mountshastaecology.org/2015/05/09/water-crisis-local-activists-speak-out-crystal-geyser-eir-needed/

Water Plant Comments Extended

10 Day DEQ Public Comment Period Extension Granted.

However, public hearing is still scheduled for Aug 1 at the Creston school at 6:00 pm.

 

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/members/water-plant-comments-extended/article_683a7c08-5384-11e6-9b0d-5b16b859c7d3.html

What is True Cost of Drinking Water from Plastic Bottles?

 

http://flatheadbeacon.com/2016/07/23/true-cost-drinking-water-plastic-bottles/

What is leaching from your BPA Free Water Bottle?

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xximtvd-PeA

People of Flathead Valley, WAKE UP!!!

Double click on photo to clearly see the location of the MAWC bottling Plant

The Rolling Pipeline

People of Flathead Valley, WAKE UP!!! We must act before it’s too late. We must all realize what is going on and work together to stop it. If we love our Valley, we must unite and put a stop to this Creston Bottling plant.

This is not the first time our Valley has been in jeopardy. In 1943, Army engineers, on behalf of the federal Bonneville and Grand Coulee power projects, proposed to take over the Kerr Dam and raise it 17 feet. Much of the Flathead Valley would have been flooded. Our fertile Valley would be under water and many of our towns would too. Governor Sam C. Ford, the state water conservation board, and thousands of our citizens protested at public hearings and got it stopped.

Well, our Valley is in jeopardy again, only this time much more under the radar. The aforementioned bottling plant proposes to produce 2 billion, 12-ounce bottles of water each and every year, once it has all its permits in place. Permits that are in force FOREVER. That is 189 million gallons of water a year out of our aquafer, FOREVER. This water is going to be piped to California, Nevada, and Arizona, via a rolling pipeline of 47 semi-trucks a day. 47 trucks going and 47 trucks coming every day. A rolling pipeline travelling through Bigfork, Woods Bay, Polson, or maybe Somers, Lakeside, either way, south to Interstate 90. Selling our water. They say that it will have no effect on us. They are in the “deep aquafer.” Apparently that puts the onus on the people of the Valley to prove that that it will have an effect on us. Deep aquafer, shallow aquafer, Flathead River, Flathead Lake, are they connected? They say they are not. I say common sense says that the recharge for all of our water comes from the same place. How can they not be connected? I say they should have to prove that their plant, and the ones that follow, and believe me there will be more, should have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they won’t make a wasteland out of our Valley in the years to come. Do you want to gamble on them or on common sense?

They do plan on leaving us something, though. Their plan is to dump all other water that they draw out of the aquafer (we don’t know that quantity) and use for processing their plastic bottles, (waste water) into the Flathead River system.

It’s time to get involved. Call the Governor, and all of our elected officials, voice your concerns. If you want to save this Valley for generations to come, Let’s Roll!!! Check out waterforflatheadsfuture.org

6 July 2016

Jay Trepanier

407 Lake Loop Drive

Kalispell, MT 59901

257 2293

Phoenix Water Bottling Plant?

Nestlé Discovers Water in the Arizona Desert, and Bottles It!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-29/nestl-discovers-water-in-the-arizona-desert-and-bottles-it