Not being much of a chemist type this did make one question come to mind though.
Does what they take out of the "salt' mining it make it better or worse as a
racing surface and does it change the life cycle of the surface? Does the potash
and other minerals make up something that is near and dear to the composition of
what we call the 'salt surface'?
Dave Dahlgren
W S Potter wrote:
> The last report from Gary Allen was that they had been pumping successfully
> about half of the time this year. By successfully He meant that when the
> concentration of salt in the brine was high enough they were running the
> pumps. When the concentration was too low they shut them off until they
> could get the specific gravity to the needed point and then start up again.
>
> The two best years, Reilly pumped an annual return of around 1.8 million
> tons. The others have been about half of that
>
> Bottom line is that over the life of the pumping the amount of salt gain is
> likely to be about one million tons. The hoped for five year gain was three
> and a quarter million tons. Unless they either quit taking brine off for
> mining or find a way to pump a good percentage for an entire six months it
> isn't going to happen. The 7.5 million ton goal over five years will
> probably end up being something less than that over six years, not five.
> The Reilly Industries annual harvest is somewhere over 75 million tons so we
> would need 1.5 million tons to be the minimum amount restored over five
> years to reach the goal.
>
> We need the reclamation of the Bonneville Salt Flats to be part of the lease
> for Reilly to continue mining. We need Reilly to do the reclamation because
> no one else can afford to do it.
>
> It's a win-win situation for them because;
> 1. Their mineral production is up because the increased flow of water
> results in a higher concentration of potash and other wanted minerals in
> their production and
> 2. It is great PR for them when they need a good face as a result of other
> super-fund cleanup projects they are responsible for in other places. Check
> their web site and see how they brag about the restoration project there.
>
> We need thirteen miles of hard salt to race on again.
>
> We just want the salt back, any way we can get it.
>
> Wes
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