H2Overkill
This week’s Gazette cover story names names: specifically, the names that go with the city’s fastest-spinning water meters.
Beer baron John Cresap won the title by a slender margin: last year he went through 2.26 million gallons of water. Of the Top Ten, all of whom were at 1.3 million gallons or above, four were located in Gallardia and two in Heritage Hills. The average residential customer in Oklahoma City uses 84,000 gallons a year, so Number 10 is using about 15 houses’ worth, and Cresap, in his capacity as Number One, about 27. These are numbers worthy of Lance Armstrong.
The city says that presuming a 1.5-percent increase per year, the local supply should be “adequate for the next 50 years.”
Disclosure: I average right around 25,000 gallons a year, a figure equivalent to a mere 0.3 average city homes despite my Fergusonesque toilet; to borrow a phrase from Dawn Eden, I’m trying to uphold the highest American Standard.
MissQOKC »
21 May 2009 · 9:32 am
I question the helpfulness of the Gazette naming the top water users. His house is apparently not an average house. I bet most of the people in average homes(myself included) would build their own oasis with pools and fountains and a huge lush yard if they could. Leave the beer man alone.
CGHill »
21 May 2009 · 11:07 am
I suspect that someone at City Hall got the idea that examples of wretched excess will motivate people to save water this summer. (As if.)
Much to their discomfiture, somewhere around half the residence accounts in this town are going to show above-average consumption.
Dwayne "the canoe guy" »
21 May 2009 · 12:41 pm
” last year he went through 2.26 million gallons of water.” and I suppose that the water, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
CGHill »
21 May 2009 · 4:04 pm
Well, you have to presume some of it did.