This is 720,000 gallons per day, and does not include additional well sites, from which waters will be trucked in, bottled and removed from the surrounding areas. The application also states the plant would be capable of bottling 500 gallons of water per minute. For every gallon pumped by the New Haven project, that means there s a gallon of water that will not get to its natural discharge area. Those 600 gallons per minute have to come from somewhere. Some preliminary calculations indicate that the impacts could be in the neighborhood of 15-percent of the streamflow of one of the local creeks.
More information is needed to say for sure.
The recent referendum tells us that the information you have received so far hasn't convinced you that New Haven could benefit from an Ice Mountain Spring Water project. If the company indeed cared about the opinion of the citizens, it would leave the New Haven area and seek a new location. Opposition began immediately when the Big Springs site was selected in February. Since then, thousands of signatures have been collected in protest. From February through June, all Perrier press releases, comments to members of the water committee, and to individuals who had inquired, stated the factory would be 250,000 square feet in size.