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The Water Management Toolbox
What is The Water Management Toolbox? |
The Water Management Toolbox delineate the most commonly used water management tools in the Powder River Basin. The options include: surface discharge, managed irrigation, on and off channe impoundments, injection, treatment various commericial and industrial uses, and emerging technologies.
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Examples of stakeholders using tools:
CBNG Water Is Available For A Variety Of Uses
Powder River Basin–December 12, 2006
The Water Management Toolbox supplies produced water for a range of commercial and industrial uses. In the arid west, water users are demanding enormous amounts of water for municipal, agricultural, wildlife habitat and recreational uses. The potential sources include conventional and unconventional (cbng) water, to slake the Rockies’ thirst.
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Treatment Technologies Bring Opportunities for Water Management in the PRB
Powder River Basin–September 19, 2006
Operators use treatment as another cbng water management tool in the Water Management Toolboxs.
Treatments such as ion exchange, reverse osmosis and capacitive desalination were severely limited when the first wells were drilled in the Powder River Basin in the late 90’s. A decade later, operators have tested nearly ten different types of treatment methods all across the Basin.
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CBNG Water Helps Ranchers Make a Living
Powder River Basin–June 6, 2006
Surface discharge is one of the most broadly utilized tools out of The Water Management Toolbox. When ranchers and operators use surface discharge, water is more available than it was in the past.
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Gillette Rancher Experiments With Reinjection
Powder River Basin–June 6, 2006
A local rancher’s aquifer recharge experiment mirrored the results of a Montana state study. Gillette Rancher Robert Brug determined 25 percent of his shallow gravel aquifer wells had the right rock type to accept water easily. His results were identical to a recent study conducted by the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, which found water replacement, or injection, was possible in 25 percent of the Powder River Basin.
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Transforming Prairie-Dog Land Into Productive Land, The "TOOLBOX" Way
Powder River Basin–June 6, 2006
Managed Irrigation is a strategic beneficial use of coalbed natural gas discharge water. It’s strategic because it’s a science. Thousands of acres in the Powder River Basin have been transformed into productive use by applying a little chemistry to the produced water and adhering to traditional agronomic principles.
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