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Experts say area water
may be unfit in 15 years
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By DANNY MYERS
Reporter
College Station might need a new
source of drinking water by the
year 2000 because water from its
3,000-foot well might become too
salty to drink, says College Station
Mayor Gary Halter.
Salts sometimes dissolve and pol
lute wells, making the water unfit to
drink, he says.
He says the city is studying seve
ral alternatives to using well water.
“Desalination of the Brazos
(River) has been proposed, but the
cost would be $30 to $40 million,”
Halter says. “The only money for
this would come from the cities that
could use the water.”
But, he says, salinity levels in the
Brazos River fluctuate.
One proposal is to dam the Bra
zos when salt levels are low and cre
ate lakes, he says.
The water would be treated
there, then pumped to College Sta
tion, he says.
Another proposal is to get water
from the Navasota River, which has
better quality water than the Bra
zos, Halter says.
“This would be very costly — too
costly for College Station, Bryan
and Texas A&M,” he says. “The
only way this could be done is to get
the city of Houston involved.”
College Station City Manager
William King Cole says using water
from the Navasota would mean
building a dam and digging miles
of aquaducts.
Charles Otto, an assistant water
treatment attendant at the city’s
treatment center, siys the city’s wa
ter is 120 degrees when pumped to
the surface, then pumped into a
large cooling tower that works like a
giant radiator.
The water is mixed with chlorine
in the cooling tower to kill bacteria,
and then is transferred into a 3-mil-
lion-gallon ground storage tank
where it is kept until pumped to the
residents of College Station, he
says.
Lloyd Deuel, president of Deuel
and Zahray Laboratories, says the-
water already contains an abun
dance of sodium and recommends
that people with dietary restrictions
drink bottled water.
Deuel says sodium can calise
high blood pressure and can make
the body retain fluids, causing
weight gain.
Too much sodium is as harmful
to plants as it is to people and con
tinuous watering with College Sta
tion tap water could kill plants,
Deuel says.
The best way to handle that is to
use more rain water and use less
city water on plants, Deuel says.
He suggests adding gypsum to
plants. This adds calcium, which
competes with the sodium and pre
vents sodium buildup, he says.
Gypsum is available at most
greenhouses that sell fertilizers, he
says.
Rhino sex life study grant may be blocked
Coon's Kingdom
HOUSTON — U.S. Rep. Jack
Fields says he’s trying to block a re
quest by the Houston Zoo for a
$25,000 federal grant to study the
mating habits of Samburu and Mar-
sabit. two rare white rhinoceroses.
“At a time when our country is
facing massive federal deficits, even
a $25,000 grant to study the mating
habits of the Houston Zoo’s white
rhinoceroses is an affront to every
taxpayer in this country,” Fields, R-
Texas, said.
Zoo Director John Werler said he
was unaware of Fields’ opposition to
the grant application, but that he
thinks the congressman may be miss
ing the point.
Zoo officials want the federal
money to help defray the costs of a
$57,600 study to find out why the
rhinos have failed to produce off
spring.
The study, approved last week by
the Houston City Council, would ex
amine the rhinos’ reproductive sys
tems and look for ways to artificially
inseminate the beasts.
Zoo officials said the goal of the
project is conservation and that in
formation gained about the rhinos’
reproductive habits could be applied
to other endangei ed rhino species.
Fields said he has expressed his
objections in a letter to Monica Har
rison, acting director of the Institute
of Museum Services, the federal
agency that will decide whether to
approve the grant.
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White defends education policies from opposition attach
Associated Press
IRVING — Gov. Mark White and five
challengers hoping to unseat him in this
year’s gubernatorial race agreed on many
of the problems facing Texas — but few
possible solutions — while stumping for
support among newspaper executives
Tuesday.
White used much of his time to defend
the state’s educational reform package, in
cluding the no pass, no play rule, and said
that teachers who just completed the con
troversial competency test “will be admired
as leaders.”
Former Republican Gov. Bill Clements,
who White unseated in 1982, lauded his
own administration and blasted the incum
bent for tax hikes, college tuition increases
and across-the-board budget cuts.
Don Crowder, a Democratic hopeful who
earlier kicked off his campaign by calling
White “a nerd,” said a state lottery would
ease the current fiscal crunch in Austin.
Kent Hance, a former Democratic con
gressman who jumped to the GOP to run
for governor, called for a push for a diversi
fied economy that would be less sensitive to
the ups and downs of the oil and gas indus
try.
Tom Loeffler, a Republican congress
man from Hunt, said he would bring Rea
ganomics “home to Texas” and also said his
four terms in Congress would help him
lobby for state interests in Washington.
Andrew Briscoe III, a Democratic candi
date and second cousin to former Gov.
Dolph Briscoe, pointing to his experience
as a government employee and as a private
businessman, pitched himself as “the most
diversified candidate.”
White and the five challengers appeared
on a panel at the annual meeting of the
Texas Daily Newspaper Association.
Each candidate was given 10 minutes to
pitch his candidacy to the publishing exec
utives.
“They all want my job and they want to
water down our education bill,” White said
of his opponents.
The governor pledged that he would not
back off any provision of the reform pack
age, passed by a special session of the 1984
Legislature.
“We’re not going to sit back idly and al
low Texas to become a backwater state,” he
said.
White also was critical of his opponents’
remarks about increased taxes and state
fees.
“Where do they think the money for in
creased teacher salaries . . . comes from?”
he said.
White said the state has an ecom
ture in the education issue and said no]
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ployees and left a budget surplus ofalfe
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of the state’s criminal justice system
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