ding ding ding winer!

Went today, definitely a few inches lower than last week! Seems like it should be a few inches higher.

Found some white bass today, need to take my electric knife with me next week when I go..

You'll never hear any complaints since the oil well business is the livelyhood of more folks than it is for fishermen.
Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out where all the water is going.

Not in the Oil business but live in the area. They have not dammed and of the rivers coming into the lake for frac water, that would be the most logical, but not consistent. And to think a company would horizontal under the lake to use the water is laughable. Yes they drilled a 6 million dollar hole for water they can get from any one of the thousand carrizzo wells already drilled for farming and livestock. Horizontals happen at 8000-9000 feet, that's close to 7000plus feet deeper than the deepest part of the river basin. There is a reason for the lack of lake recovery, but that is not it.

Maybe I just like to the pot!
I've been around since before the lake was a lake, and it will take a tropical storm or hurricane to fill that lake, and it will eventually happen.
Until then I guess we all will just believe what we believe, and have comic relief reading all the posts.

Do you have any idea what would happen to a company IF they could actually do that?

I bet these stay filled from the rain water. Also, I'd like to point out that I don't live in the area and it doesn't affect me whatsoever. The town also draws water from the lake and evaporation also occurs, so anyways.... you can view my opinion however you'd like.

Those are recovered frac water.

I'm clueless on the oil life, what happens to this water? I tried to google it, but it didn't sound very positive.

It evaporates, or is hauled to disposal wells. As goofy as it sounds, it is too contaminated to use to frac again. Now there is a company that claims to be able to treat it, but haven't heard much out of them.

I'd think with the heat that place has, that stuff would have to evaporate fairly quickly. Sounds like some pretty nasty stuff according to what I read on the internet. The page I was reading said it took something like 5 million (or more) gallons of water to frac a well.

And less than half comes back out of the hole. But,fracing has been going on for at least 65 years and it is nothing but water and sand. All this "exocitic chemicals" [censored] is just enviromentalists propaganda. It does contain what ever was in the formation and that is considered hazardous. It uses a lot of water, and during the drought and oil boom it was a problem. But now that aquifers are full again and the oil bust, no one notices.

Choke is just in a bad spot. Not enough drainage to keep it constant level and the City of Corpus Christi has the dumbest water plan.

Do you want to know more about it? It's hauled to a disposal well where it is pumped about 10,000 feet underground and yes, forgotten. Evaporation rates are high, look at Choke Canyon Res., and if you will notice the evap ponds are everywhere, almost one for each well location.

It's not the sinister thing people think, they don't get water without paying for it, and if they are taking water from Choke, you need to talk to the City of Corpus Christi about that.

Choke is a really screwed up thing and I don't think we will ever get normal levels (consistent) from it. I was digging through some articles last year and found where it was written that they have to let out of it, the same flow that is coming into it. Now this might be just during the shrimp breeding season or special times, it was written to intelligently for me to fully understand.



So anyways, it's been drug off topic enough now. Anybody fishing it?