Walther Farms to draw from Edisto River

[jfields47]

The second site is about a 1/2 mile from my poultry farm. I'm not by any means against the farm itself, but the amount of water that will need to irrigate these 2 sites is unbelievable. I'm just not sure the river could withstand the seasonal draw that would occur while irrigating during a dry period. We all know that we never more than about 2 weeks away from drought in SC. These people don't play, that's for sure. Starting in Jan, they will run 24hrs a day clearing and prepping the 2nd site.

[Black Water]

I posted it in the wildlife and habitat politics forum.

It sux. We are just below this monstrosity.

[jfields47]

I posted it in the wildlife and habitat politics forum.

It sux. We are just below this monstrosity.

You below the 1st site or the 2nd site?

[Black Water]

I can hear the equipment running. Not sure exactly which site , but it's to damn close .

[jfields47]

You must be near the 2nd site. They've been hauling at least 55 loads of timber a day of this site. The loggers can barely keep up with the clearing crews.

[Black Water]

I know everyone around the area is raising hell . You need to check out the Friends of the Edisto and Edisto Concerns FB pages if you have a FB account. There's a couple of videos you can see .

[turfgrass]

no biggie

[sc high tide]

The water usage figure seems blown so far out of proportion it isn't funny. Follow the calculations below. And if the farm is 3,700 acres there's no way there's 3700 acres of potatoes on it.

3,700 acres x 7 acre inches of water x 27154 gallons/acre inch = 703,288,600 gallons

Don't get me wrong, that's a lot of water but its not 9.6 billion gallons.

FYI, It's also a slippery slope protesting farms.

[Black Water]

The water usage figure seems blown so far out of proportion it isn't funny. Follow the calculations below. And if the farm is 3,700 acres there's no way there's 3700 acres of potatoes on it.

3,700 acres x 7 acre inches of water x 27154 gallons/acre inch = 703,288,600 gallons

Don't get me wrong, that's a lot of water but its not 9.6 billion gallons.

FYI, It's also a slippery slope protesting farms.

They are claiming 15 inches of water not 7 and this farm is going to supply taters for Frito lay potato chips. Those blown of of porportion numbers are what they are requesting.