Safe Yield

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Safe Yield: - The annual amount of water that can be taken from a source of supply over a period of years without depleting that source beyond its ability to be replenished naturally in "wet years."
[Environmental Protection Agency]

News archive for Safe Yield::

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)  -  05 Aug 2008
Press Information Bureau (press release),Growing stock, increment & yield figures for timber, fuel wood, fodder & grass, non-wood forest products for local use/safe. Yield trend under various

Village ‘open for business’ with renovated water tower  -  05 Aug 2008
Catskill Daily Mail,...“The whole idea behind all of these improvements is to ensure that the village has a safe yield of water,� said Barlett. “Residents shouldn’t be fearful

Water use across NC ‘inefficient'  -  Jul 30, 2008
Charlotte Observer,Drought indicators aren't useful gauges, and descriptions of “safe yield� and days of supply remaining aren't very effective.

Royal Bank of Scotland stands out in an uneasy banking sector  -  Jul 25, 2008
Times Online,...where a customer can secure a personal loan at 7.2 per cent from a bank whose shares offer an apparently safe yield of 10.9 per cent.

Treasuries seen favored if deflation prevails-Merrill  -  Jul 25, 2008
Reuters..."Investors should seek out safe yield as much as possible, whether in the Treasury market, the muni market or among other high-quality fixed-income vehicles

You Need to Be in the Game to Win  -  Jul 23, 2008
Kiplinger.com,For investors seeking a safe yield, municipal bonds are the more attractive option. Foreign stocks are relatively more expensive than their domestic

Enterprise Products: Pipeline to Profits  -  Jul 28, 2008
Seeking Alpha,...but after looking beyond the surface EPD presents a compelling buying opportunity for the medium-long term investor seeking a safe yield.

Opponents of biomass-fired power plant appeal state permit for ...  -  Jul 26, 2008
The Republican - MassLive.com,..."The state didn't conduct a "safe yield analysis" for the Westfield River Basin as required under the Water Management Act. The formula, applied to produce

Bike patrol safety  -  Jul 17, 2008
News 10 Now,When spotting a bike, drivers should play it safe, yield to the cyclist and be prepared to stop. Noeker said, "Bikes have a right the the road as much as a

Farmers abandon land due to water salinity  -  Jul 24, 2008
Peninsula On-line,The estimated safe yield of the aquifer, based on the calculated average natural recharge over the last 20 years, is of the order of 35 MCM/ yr.

Troy Borough to sell bulk water  -  Jul 13, 2008
News Item,...“We’ll be operating below our safe yield levels,� he said. This will be raw water, and not treated, he noted. The water is used in the drilling operations.

We’ve always had to hoard water  -  Jul 13, 2008
Cyprus Mail,It was calculated a few years ago that groundwater resources of Cyprus are over-pumped every year by 40 per cent over the allowable safe yield.

Farmers find fault with Yolo's water ordinance  -  Jul 25, 2008
Bizjournals.com,The proposed ordinance would also establish a groundwater monitoring system and a “safe yield� from wells to avoid depleting the aquifer,

State needs a clear measure of its resources  -  Jul 20, 2008
Boston Globe,A good place to start would be to evaluate the safe yield of each major watershed, and compare that with the amount of water being withdrawn in each

Fitch Assigns Upper Occoquan Sewage Authority (Virginia) Revs 'AA'  -  04 Dec 2007
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),...in protecting the water quality of the reservoir and in boosting its overall safe yield, particularly during dry periods when natural flows are reduced.

Dividend Stocks for Retirement Portfolios  -  Nov 22, 2007
Seeking Alpha,Allow me to share an example that will illustrate how a lower but safe yield can beat a high yield (even if the high yield is sustained).

Experts say nj's water could run out in 20 years  -  Nov 11, 2007
Bridgewater Courier News,..."We're not even close to the safe yield," Patterson said. Anthony mccracken, assistant director of Somerset County's Planning Division and a member of the

The Charismatic Tale of SB1575  -  Nov 6, 2007
Read It Here,Adwir’s AMA groundwater protection plan involves calculating a rough balance (called safe yield) for each Enchanted Land as a whole, to keep users from

Uncontrolled Intersections in Pocatello  -  Nov 14, 2007
KIDK,..."More than anything, people just need to honor the traffic rules, keep people safe, yield to your right, slow down. We have children in this neighborhood,"

Keep your cool driving this holiday season  -  Nov 24, 2007
WALB-TV,..."Be safe, yield, stop at stop lights and watch out for crazy drivers," said Tucker. "Slow down, watch out for the other guy and just leave more room for you

Gettysburg water bills could jump in '08  -  Nov 9, 2007
The Evening Sun,In 2005, the average water demand per day was 1.27 million gallons, well under the system's "safe yield" of 1.68 million gallons of water per day.

Planned ethanol plant would fuel, feed and foul  -  Nov 10, 2007
Topeka Capital Journal (subscription),...said the ethanol plant would nearly maximize the amount of water available to the area through the state's safe-yield policy on consumption.

The Balance  -  Aug 7, 2007
Read It Here,It’s safe yield. It’s where we aren’t, it’s where we’re supposed to be by 2025, eighteen fleeting years hence. How we get there is a question that has lots

Groundwater plans presented  -  Aug 7, 2007
St. George Daily Spectrum,The objective of a groundwater management plan, as outlined by Olds, is to limit withdrawals to a safe yield, protect the physical integrity of the aquifer

Read It Here endorses Jack Wilson for Prescott’s next mayor  -  Aug 20, 2007
Read It Here,Mayor Simmons continues to shy away from the essential issue of how the Prescott AMA will reach safe yield, and he fails to grasp the current situation: in

Cramer gets defensive with Reynolds American (RAI), Altria (MO)  -  Aug 16, 2007
Blogging StocksTonight on CNBC's MAD MONEY, Jim Cramer tauted Reynolds American (NYSE:RAI) as a high dividend stock with a safe yield that out pays US treasury yields.

Eel River group seeks conditions on Plymouth's irrigation usage  -  Jul 29, 2007
Boston Globe,..."The development of a standardized approach to defining basin safe yield has been and continues to be elusive," the state environmental agency's deputy

New Kona well ready for test  -  Aug 22, 2007
Honolulu Advertiser,A pump test is expected sometime next week to determine the well's safe yield. The test will last at least 96 continuous hours, and compressors and engines

Springs of hope  -  Aug 16, 2007
New Statesman,The Mountain Aquifer can provide a safe yield of 700 million cubic metres of water a year. Israel draws 500 million cubic metres, the West Bank 200.

Monsoon little help in recharging aquifer  -  Aug 14, 2007
Tucson Citizen,State law requires water providers in the management areas to strive for "safe yield," which is the amount the state determines that can be withdrawn from

Scottsdale growth means more thirsty people  -  Aug 5, 2007
East Valley Tribune,Last year, Scottsdale achieved what’s called “safe yield,� when the amount it removes from underground wells equals the amount the city puts back in,




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