THE GREAT ABYSS, IMAGINE AN ENTIRE CONTINENT BURNING

Yesterday there was a house on this lot.

While MANY will try to claim what you are about to read is not true by advancing every theory they can come up with to TRY to disprove it, the fact is that it IS true and proven. The science behind what you are about to read is well established and easy to grasp

First, I'm sure you know you cannot remove ANYTHING from anywhere, without it being replaced by something else. For example, you cannot even remove chair from your living room without it being replaced by air. Failure to replace any removed material creates a vacuum. Call it the Law of Replacement.

The water in underground aquifers has been heavily pumped by irrigation farmers which has lowered the water levels by 100 feet, and as a result created a partial vacuum in the aquifers. The aquifers lie beneath the H-P Natural Gas Reserve. The vacuum from the removed water consequently sucks all the "replacement" water the energy companies have been pumping into America's natural gas reserve for the purpose of extracting gas, to fill the void in the aquifer.

As a result, a partial vacuum is then created in our natural gas reserves, which in turn draws air (oxygen) into the reserves from the surface of the earth, mostly through vent pipes created in the drilling process, effectively converting our gas reserves into an extremely volatile bomb made of natural gas and oxygen.

Although the gas reserves cover a lot of area beneath America, the aquifers are even more enormous. So, removing a 100 feet depth of water created a TREMENDOUS amount of vacuum to suck down the replacement water used by the energy companies for purposes of extracting gas, which by comparison, amounted to just a few inches of water in depth.

According to the Environmental News Network:

ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS NETWORK

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/commentary/21326

"For fossil aquifers, such as the vast U.S. Ogallala aquifer depletion brings pumping to an end. Farmers who lose their irrigation water have the option of returning to lower-yield dry land farming if rainfall permits. In more arid regions, however, such as in the southwestern United States, the loss of irrigation water means the end of agriculture.

In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas ~ three leading grain-producing states ~ the underground water table has dropped by more than 30 meters

As a result, wells have gone dry on thousands of farms in the southern Great Plains. Although this mining of underground water (by farming) is taking a toll on U.S. grain production, irrigated land accounts for only one fifth of the U.S. grain harvest, compared with close to three fifths of the harvest in India and four fifths in China."

Now that we've provided an expert source to refer to, allow us to remind you that the "PANHANDLE" portion of the Hugoton Panhandle Natural Gas Reserve we refer to in this article sits directly UNDER the states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas!!!!

WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ IS ACCURATE AND TRUE

1. According to its own official maps, America (and both its neighbors) sit on top of the Hugoton-Panhandle Natural Gas Reserve, which is the largest natural gas reserve on earth.

2. In order to extract natural gas from what is basically an enormously large interconnected and "dry" set of chambers, America's energy companies have been pumping huge amounts of water into them for just under a hundred years to force the gas out into pipelines, then on to processing plants.

NOTE: In areas (such as the Rocky Mountains) the H-P Reserve consists of little more than dense oil soaked layers of shale rock, and for which reason, it is not profitable to extract gas from those areas. Even so, several very rich oil fields co-exist with the H-P natural gas reserve in these same areas of dense shale rock. In places such as south Texas oil formations are much deeper, and do not generally pose the problem we will be discussing.

However, should our shallow natural gas reserve ever become ignited, the above areas would either explode or burn nevertheless.

3. Once the gas in a given part of the chamber of our natural gas reserve reaches a point where it's no longer dense enough to be economical to extract gas from, these energy companies simply move to areas that are more dense, in hopes that the vacuum caused by the receding "replacement" water will eventually suck in enough gas from other areas of the reserve.

4. Meanwhile, the law of gravity has been constantly pulling the replacement water they had previously filled that part of the gas chamber with into our water aquifers, which are located well below the gas chambers, leaving the partial vacuum that remains loaded with lower levels of natural gas.

5. Granted, most of the overall gas reserve consists of fairly dense shale rock, but there are large chambers (wide open spaces) particularly in the areas where the energy companies have been removing oil and natural gas, within the same general areas.

6. With nothing else to fill the void created by the reduced water level in the reserves, the resulting vacuum sucks air (oxygen) into these huge chambers from the surface of the earth; mostly through vent pipes left from the original drilling operation.

7. Once the oxygen to gas ratio reaches fourteen percent, the "mix" in this part of the reserve becomes volatile, and subject to exploding if and when it is ever ignited. A mix of twenty-one percent oxygen to gas ratio causes that particular gas chamber to become a genuine fully loaded bomb, just waiting to be ignited.

8. At a point just thirty miles north of Pantex, where America stores its larger nuclear weapons, the H-P Reserve is less than fifty feet below the surface of the earth; and subject to being breached by just anything falling from the sky, such as an airplane, a meteorite, or a bomb.

9. If that should ever take place, the entire North American Continent would be subject to a series of explosions and fires, until it literally ceases to exist, because the entire N. American Continent is literally perched on top of the H-P Reserve. So, after the explosions, those parts that are made of heavily oil laden shale rock would simply burn until there is nothing left. Which means the dirt itself would burn.

IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THE U.S GOVERNMENT HAS HAD ITS MILITARY, ITS BEST EXPERTS, SCIENTISTS FROM AMERICA'S BEST UNIVERSITIES, AS WELL AS EXPERTS FROM THE CHEVRON OIL COMPANY, EXAMINE WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ, AND NOT ONE OF THEM HAS BEEN ABLE TO DISPROVE ANY PART OF IT !!

THEY KNOW IT'S TRUE, BUT THERE'S NO SOLUTION,

SO THEY DON'T DARE TELL YOU!!

Should you ever find yourself walking through the burned out forest in the dead of a very cold winter just outside what used to be Centralia, Pennsylvania, and feel like your feet are on fire, it's by no means an illusion. Just a few feet below the ground upon which you are walking, the earth is literally blazing with fire. It's an underground fire that now covers dozens of square miles.

This fire has literally consumed the City of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and it now threatens Ashland, Pa, and other surrounding cities. If you continue walking you will eventually pass by several open fiery pits, which continue to belch fire and brimstone (sulfur) after forty years. The noxious fumes will make you ill.

Be aware that in 1981 a teenager named Domboski was minding his own business when a fiery crater four feet wide opened up directly beneath him. It was 150 feet deep, filled with blazing fire, carbon monoxide, and other noxious gases. Domboski clung to roots along the side of the fiery fissure until his cousin managed to pull him to safety. The hellish situation brought national press coverage to the town's plight.

If you continue your walk, you will pass countless chimney vents where the government has drilled down into the earth and inserted vent pipes which allow this fire to exhaust its heat and noxious fumes into the atmosphere, to prevent the underneath abyss from exploding.

Cities like Byrnesville, Pa, and others for miles around Centralia have had to be evacuated because of the toxic fumes. Fires and smoke just bellow out of the earth. One minute a house seems normal, and the next minute it might simply burst into flames without warning.

With no hopes of ever putting the fire out, Centralia, Pennsylvania is just being left to burn into oblivion. Experts estimate it will continue to burn for well over a thousand more years.

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TO QUOTE HISTORIANS IN THE YEAR 2002:

"It seems Centralia’s only hope of ever coming back to life, is if the hell beneath it literally freezes over. With no further plans to even try to extinguish the fire, most modern maps no longer show a dot where Centralia once stood."

Looking east on East Centre Street in 1986

THIS, USED TO BE CENTRALIA, PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL THE ENTIRE TOWN WAS CONSUMED BY AN UNDERGROUND FIRE THAT STILL RAGES

From the same spot cooking in the same direction on East Center Street in 2006

This is an underground fire that has now burned for almost FIFTY years.

Some will no doubt claim we are sensationalizing the problem, and some will no doubt claim that fire cannot survive, or even exist underground. Others will no doubt claim the catastrophe we are describing just simply cannot happen to America. However, just try telling that to the former residents of Centralia, Pennsylvania.

This was Centralia, Pennsylvania in 1960

This was Centralia, Pennsylvania in 2005

Centralia 2007, no longer plush, green and full of houses..

Fire comes up through some 13 square miles but covers an estimated 10,000 CUBIC MILES of space under the earth. It now threatens to consume three other towns, with no hopes of putting it out.

This is the problem referred to in this report. Except natural gas is much more volatile than the coal fire that consumed Centralia, Pa. Also, this source covers an estimated FOUR BILLION cubic MILES of space, it covers the entire North American Continent; in places it lies just 50 ft. beneath the surface; and it's taking on oxygen!

DON'T BELIEVE CENTRALIA HAS BEEN BURNED OFF THE MAP ~ READ IT YOURSELF

http://www.americas-demise.org/The_Smithsonian_Magazine.html

THEREFORE,

IN SPITE OF MAN'S DENIALS TO COVER IT UP

THIS IS BY NO MEANS AN IDLE THREAT

THE FACTS BEING PROVIDED ARE REAL

PANTEX is where America stores most of its larger nuclear weapons. Its location is indicated by the red dot on the Texas county map. The image to the right is the official U.S. Geological Survey map of America's natural gas reserves; all of which are collectively referred to as the HUGOTON PANHANDLE GAS RESERVE. The various colors on the map indicate the density of gas from one area to another.

Keep in mind the gas reserve doesn't always follow America's shore lines. The entire North American Continent is perched directly on top of these reserves. The largest of the reserves within the Hugoton-Panhandle Complex is the "Panhandle Reserve," which is located a few miles north of PANTEX, which is just outside of Amarillo, Texas. At this location this horrendous natural gas reserve is less than fifty feet below the surface of the Earth.

At only fifty feet, the roof of one chamber of the Texas Panhandle Reserve is shallow enough to be cracked then set ablaze by almost anything falling from the sky, such as a falling star or a meteorite. This area has been referred to by local people as The Great Abyss, because it's known to be immeasurable, (which is the definition of the term abyss). Others simply refer to it as the bottomless pit. As this report continues, these titles will become extremely important.

In our previous report we described an UNDERGROUND fire which relied on coal as its fuel, but where coal is very slow to burn, natural gas ignites instantly. Also, where coal is seldom prone to explode, it is the very nature of natural gas to explode instantly when ignited.

In order to be able to extract large amounts of gas, America's energy companies have been using twin locomotive size diesel engines at a place called Sanford, Texas (just north of Pantex) to turn incredibly huge water pumps.

These pumps remove water from man made Lake Meredith (created by a large dam constructed on the Canadian River, a little north of America's Pantex Nuclear Storage Facility), then force the water down into the earth at Sanford, Texas.

In other words, they are "replacing" the vacated area from which they have removed trillions of cubic feet of gas and oil, with water they pump from the Canadian River at Lake Meredith. The concept of forcing water into the gas reserve, which in turn forces gas to the surface, and hopefully into pipelines, is called "water replacement."

Due to the Panhandle Reserve being overworked since the very early 1900's, there are now huge pockets of natural gas all around the PANTEX nuclear storage facility. However, in this instance, if the H-P Reserve ever explodes it will NOT actually set off these nuclear weapons.

No indeed, the results will be far more catastrophic than if they were to all go off at once, because, the explosion from the reserve will be far more powerful than the weapons themselves, and it will vaporize America's nuclear weapons, and carry their radio active particles into the atmosphere, to be distributed all around the world.

Background Information:

In the year 1924, it was thought this oil and gas reserve was limited to the Texas Panhandle, so it was appropriately named the Panhandle Natural Gas Reserve.

The early wells were given names based on the county in which they were drilled, such as "Panhandle, Wheeler County", "Panhandle, Carson County”, “Panhandle, Gray County","Panhandle, Hutchinson County", and so on. It was later discovered that these pockets of natural gas throughout the Panhandle were part of one giant reserve.

In addition to encompassing the entire Panhandle of Texas, it was discovered that this giant reserve ran all the way across the State of Kansas. Kansas had already named its portion of the reserve the "Hugoton Reserve." As the Hugoton and Panhandle reserves were found to be one and the same, they were simply referred to as the Hugoton-Panhandle Natural Gas Reserve.

Later, it was discovered that the massive H-P Reserve runs all the way across the entire State of Oklahoma, and beyond, encompassing areas which, like Kansas, had already given their portion of this very same gas reserve names that best suited their liking.

Eventually, it was discovered that the H-P Reserve runs all the way north into the State of Montana, and that for drilling purposes it was "tap-able" in almost any area along the way. Then, at a later time, it was discovered that this same gas reserve runs all the way to the most northern part of Canada, as well as all the way down to the southern most part of Old Mexico, with its width extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, thereby encompassing the entire North American Continent.

What were thought to be numerous separate gas reserves throughout the country, each of which had previously been given names that suited the people in their region, were now understood to be part of the Hugoton Panhandle Natural Gas Complex.

The following is but a partial list of names for other sections of what is now known as the Hugoton Panhandle Natural Gas Reserve: a/k/a Powder River; San Juan; Uinta; Paradox; Williston Basins; Sweetgrass Arch; Central Montana Uplift; the Rocky Mountains; Louisiana Henry Hub; Trenton-Black River gas play in southern New York; Western West Virginia Discoveries; Wyoming's two hubs; and the list goes on, and on.

Some of these places pump their own replacement water into the reserve, while others pay pumping stations as far away as Sanford, Texas, and beyond, for providing their water replacement contribution, because their location HAS no water to pump.

Also, see the link to a recent article in the National Academies Press declaring (in red text about halfway down the page) that: "Most production from the Hugoton Panhandle complex (in the State of Wyoming) is connected to, or could be connected to, the BLM helium pipeline and Cliffside storage facility near Amarillo, Texas." Please take note that scientists call every one of the interconnected reserves by the name "Hugoton Panhandle Complex:"

See our link:

http://www.americas-demise.org/The_National_Academies_Press.html

All of which proves that, in effect, what we have is essentially one common gas reserve that encompasses most of the area beneath the entire North American Continent, with a commonly used process turning it into a literal bomb of unimaginable size, creating a potential disaster of Biblical proportion, without so much as one person even trying to prevent it from happening.

Government maintains that these sections of the reserve are not interconnected, most likely so it can allocate each section as a TAXABLE entity. So, for TARIFF reasons it has no other choice, but to allow these "different" reserves to be treated as though they were independent. If not, issues of tax liability would arise among the oil companies. Although the government will claim these are different reserves, and that they are not connected, a look at their own official photograph clearly shows us otherwise.

Why does it matter if they are interconnected?

Here's a perfect example of WHY

In the year 2005, Natural Gas Geysers like the one pictured on the right began sprouting up all around the town of Kingfisher, Oklahoma, which is about 250 miles west of the pumping station in Sanford, Texas.

It's interesting to note that Kingfisher is more than 2,152 feet lower in elevation than the Sanford pumping station. When they pressurize the cavity in the earth known as the Panhandle Reserve with the Pumping Station in Sanford, Texas, the gas naturally goes downhill, finding the path of least resistance. This is exactly what it did until it made its way out of the ground in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.

The significance of these geysers is that gas does indeed travel laterally through cracks in the earth, which makes each of us susceptible to destruction. We simply cannot compress underground gas in an area that exceeds four billion cubic miles, and not expect it to make its way to the surface of the earth.

The point being conveyed through these events is that gas does travel laterally through cracks in the earth's soil and rock, and since it does, when oxygen is introduced to any given gas "cavity" of the H-P Reserve, every one of these interconnecting cracks and crevices will likewise receive oxygen, creating a massive maze of fuses similar to a dynamite fuse.

Since the reserve has already begun taking in oxygen (as we will later prove), if one cavity is ever ignited or exploded, every gas cavity within the N. American Continent will eventually either explode or burn. But, as long as its source is under pressure, natural gas will simply spew out an enormous flame if ignited, because the pressure will force the flame outward and away from the source of gas. This is the same concept that makes our natural gas kitchen stoves 100 percent safe.

We could continue about the dangers of living on top of the H-P Reserve, and about the calamity we would all face if it ever explodes, and about the natural gas geysers that are springing up all over due to man pressurizing cavities in the earth with their "water replacement" process. But we doubt that doing so would mean much unless we first provide you with positive proof that such a danger does exist. So, using scientifically proven facts, along with plain common logic, the remainder of this report is dedicated to explaining that, how, and why the H-P Reserve is indeed "taking on" oxygen.

It's a phenomenon that has become more active with each passing year, and with no known remedy in sight. It's interesting to note that the above photo, and the two below, were not taken in Oklahoma.

Instead, they were taken in Hutchinson, Kansas, after pressurized gas came spewing up out of the earth into an unsuspecting Wedding and Party Supply store in downtown Hutchinson.

To quote M. Lee Allison of the Kansas Geological Survey: "Explosions and fires on January 17 - 18, 2001 burned businesses and killed two people in Hutchinson, a town of 40,000 in central Kansas."

Above is the Wedding and Party Supply Store just after the gas explosion.

Here are several firemen in protective gear as they helplessly watch the fire that ensued after a mobile home park exploded from the very same natural gas leak.

However, the mobile home park was three miles away from the exploded store, which demonstrates that natural gas most definitely does move laterally through cracks and crevices in the earth, and documents that which we will now demonstrate is potentially the most horrendous threat any nation on earth has ever had to contend with.

http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Hydro/Hutch/Refs/GSA_abstract_7-01.pdf

THIS USED TO BE A MOBILE HOME PARK

As documented by the link provided below, this is the official Hutchinson, KS Fire Department. photo of what was left of a mobile home park that was located a full three miles away from the explosion at the Wedding and Party Supplies Store in downtown Hutchinson, after it fell victim to this same natural gas problem which came up out of the earth and exploded, causing two deaths in the mobile home park.

http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Hydro/Hutch/Background/index.html

Some will claim natural gas requires EXACTLY fourteen percent oxygen to support an explosion, others will tell you twenty one percent. But let them try telling their absurd "exactly fourteen percent or twenty one percent oxygen" defense to the thousands of people who lost their homes due to natural gas explosions last year because gas escaped into the ATMOSPHERE in their house.

Drilling:

It has been discovered that the entire City of Fort Worth, Texas sits on an extremely dense section of this same gas reserve. Incredibly, people are drilling gas wells in their back yards, and tearing down churches and schools to do so. There have been over seven hundred new gas wells drilled in 2006 alone, with most of them in people's back yards.

Aside from certain "hot" spots such as Fort Worth, you could drill a hole and run into the H-P Reserve at just about any place in North America.

The certified information documented in the following link shows how one singular company is drilling the H-P Reserve in the states of Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, North Dakota, Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. This is just one out of HUNDREDS of such companies.

http://www.northernnaturalgas.com/public/tariff/current/02019931101.html

Water Replacement Creates Huge Problems

As part of the "water replacement" process, all the water pumped into the reserve to force the gas and oil to the surface, is subjected to gravity, which means the "replacement" water is constantly being sucked toward the center of the earth into water aquifers which are located beneath the gas reserve, leaving behind extremely large, incredibly dangerous, vacuum like, FUME - LADEN, empty spaces that use to be full of oil and natural gas.

Therefore in order to be safe, the very process of "water replacement" requires that a never ending supply of water must be pumped into the cavity which once contained oil and gas. Otherwise, the continuously receding water level creates a "fume laden" semi vacuum, which in time will be partially filled with gas from other sections of America's gas reserve, and with atmospheric air (which contains oxygen), which will enter mostly through "vent holes" left from the drilling operation, creating an extremely volatile gas and oxygen BOMB just below the surface of the entire North American Continent.

A major concern is that many of the places that extract gas from America's gas reserve are running out of water to satisfy their "water replacement" contribution. As we will soon document, even their main source of "replacement" water at gargantuous Lake Meredith is almost depleted. The State of Kansas is but another very prime example of depleted "replacement" water. To wit:

As stated by renowned engineer Lestor Wilkonson, "Local (Kansas) usage of natural gas will be important, "whether there'll be enough water to pump it is another matter." See the third and fifth paragraphs at the following link; a source from which much of our data has been extracted. See our link titled:

http://www.americas-demise.org/KANSAS_ENGINEER_WILKONSON.html

So that you will have some idea as to the extent of the problem resulting from a shortage of water for pressurization, you might ask your plumber if a minutely small natural gas leak can support a flame. Then ask him how much of a head start he would like to have so he can begin running before you light a match to even the smallest leak, when it's known that the pipe the leaking gas is coming from is not under pressure and that it has some oxygen in it.

The point being, once oxygen is introduced, unless the gas is under pressure to blow the flame away from the source, any ignition at all will travel through the most minute but open crack, seam, crevice, leak or any path at all, to every source of fuel (gas and oxygen) that might be available in adjacent chambers.

Under these circumstances, a flame will instantly travel to multiple sources of gas and oxygen throughout the interconnected open cavities beneath the entire North American Continent known as the Hugoton Panhandle Natural Gas Reserve, and create the only source for an explosion of Biblical proportion ever known to man. As an added note, in all other places on earth that have been blessed with natural gas, the gas is hundreds of feet below the surface of the earth, and not subject to the same potential explosion problems.

AS FOR THESE RESERVES NOT BEING INTERCONNECTED

We are not saying that air passages the size of the Holland Tunnel connect all of America's natural gas reserves. What we are saying is that there is no such thing as a solid piece of "air tight" rock that separates them. The reason for the "plumber" analogy is obvious.

1. As the replacement water in one section of the reserve seeps toward the center of the earth due to gravity, it will leave behind a vacuum;

2. That vacuum will suck in gas from the other sections of the reserve through tiny crevices, cracks, and porous, shale type rock, while simultaneously sucking in air (oxygen) from the surface of the earth;

3. Eventually filling all of these "depleted" sections and their interconnecting "leak" sources with both gas and oxygen;

4. Which, if any portion of the reserve ever becomes ignited, will turn every "leak" source between one section and all other sections of the reserve into a system of dynamite like fuses which will simultaneously ignite every section of the entire reserve, creating an explosion that will be of unimaginable proportion, encompassing the entire North American Continent, all of which would take place within about one singular hour.

The underground connections also explain why a given reserve may at times be declared to be depleted, then years later declared to once again have sufficient amounts of gas to be commercially pursued. Over time the vacuum that results from the water subsiding deep into the earth, will suck gas and air through the cracks and crevices that interconnect it to other regions where gas is still plentiful, thereby "refilling" the depleted reserve to some degree, as well as turning these cracks and crevices into fuses by filling them with this mixture of gas and oxygen.

While the depleted reserve is sucking natural gas back into itself from other sections of the gas reserve, it is simultaneously sucking air (oxygen) in from the surface of the earth through vent pipes created during the drilling process, creating one horrendous bomb of a magnitude the world has never imagined, nor could it ever possibly imagine.

If, under these conditions the Panhandle Gas Reserve is ever ignited, no matter what name the "locals" have given it, every gas reserve underneath the entire North American Continent will simultaneously explode, and the entire Continent will become history (non-existent) within just one singular hour.

AND THERE IS MORE

The minute the pumps stop working that are being used to pump water from Lake Meredith into the H-P Reserve, (which will happen as the Canadian River dries up), the gargantuous reservoir of water man has created within the H-P reserve will sink into the earth due to gravity, creating a very temporary extreme vacuum which will then suck even more atmosphere down into what had been a reservoir of "replacement" water, and thereby provide all the oxygen needed to explode the entire H-P Reserve.

Lake Meredith is a huge dam surrounded on three sides by giant two hundred foot high cliffs. The following local Channel Eleven-TV news reports prove that the flow of water from The Canadian River into Lake Meredith has all but stopped:

According to Kent Satterwhite, General Manager of the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority:

In the year 2004, Lake Meredith lost roughly 40,000 acre feet to evaporation and pumped about 58,000 acre feet of water, at a time when inflow measured only 38,000 acre feet for the whole year.

He said that 2001 set an all-time-low-for inflow, and that even that record was broken in 2002, only to be broken again in 2003, but that prior to the drought, an average inflow would be around 122,000 acre feet.

In addition to evaporation and pumping, CRMWA officials estimate it may be losing up to 40,000 acre feet a year to salt cedar trees."

"On April 1, 2004, the water flow into Lake Meredith was only ten cubic feet per second, down from as much as 700 cubic feet per second, turning most of Lake Meredith into not much more than a giant mud hole, with most of its boat ramps closed."

"In June of 2006, High Plains Water District manager Jim Conkwright, stated that at its full capacity Lake Meredith is 101 feet deep or more . Right now, it is reportedly 56 feet deep; which is an all time low, and its only eight percent full. With 11 West Texas city members of the CRMWA, 8% is not enough, so the City of Lubbock, Texas is looking for another source for its water."

NOTE: Lake Meredith, which the locals now refer to as Lake Grasslands, because what was its bottom is now a grassy field) is "saucer" shaped, with the center area much deeper and much smaller than its outer areas, so, in the absence of its normal water flow, the vast majority of Lake Meredith is now nothing but a grassy field, or a swampy mud hole.

Watch as the water runs from Lake Meredith like sand through an hourglass. When Lake Meredith runs completely dry, where will the H-P Reserve turn for its water replacement requirements