Water Trucks Pipas
by Talley Ho 
, Playa la Ropa, Friday, January 29, 2016, 11:09 (3938 days ago)
Many of us are having our water delivered via truck.
Where does the water come from??? Don't worry, we don't drink it.
Water Trucks Pipas
Many of us are having our water delivered via truck.
Where does the water come from??? Don't worry, we don't drink it.
Pantla. Don't ask me why.
Water Trucks Pipas
Some of it comes from wells in Pantla, some of it comes from wells closer to Zihuatanejo. Basically it comes from wells, as does the water from CAPAZ
Water Trucks Pipas
i think they were trying to drill a well beside jungle pizza as well, by the sounds of it they weren't having a lot of luck.
Water Trucks Pipas
by Talley Ho , Playa la Ropa, Saturday, January 30, 2016, 09:15 (3937 days ago) @ Curbarn
Word on that was they were drilling for drainage, because the area flooded so seriously.
Drainage?
by ZihuaRob 
, Zihuatanejo, México, Saturday, January 30, 2016, 09:22 (3937 days ago) @ Talley Ho
Word on that was they were drilling for drainage, because the area flooded so seriously.
The area floods because it is a wetland! Just because they kill and remove the mangroves and fill it in with dirt and rocks doesn't change anything. It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature! Condos such as Los Mangos are built on filled in wetlands. Sooner or later Mother Nature will reclaim what is rightfully hers. Meanwhile, filling in one place only makes the flooding worse in others. I'm still astounded that short-sighted greedy local public servants allowed the coconut grove and wetlands of La Ropa to be butchered. That entire area from la Ropa to the lighthouse to Playa Riscalillo should have been designated as an ecological zone.
Drainage?
by Gringo Viejo , Kansas/Zihuatanejo, Saturday, January 30, 2016, 10:16 (3937 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
Similar to filling in the salt marshes in FL and selling the lots as "waterfront" back in the late 50s and early 60s methings. Oh I got that backwards-they sold the lots first and then filled in the marshes as I recll.
Wasn't Centro once full of mangroves and wetland? 
Drainage?
by ZihuaRob , Zihuatanejo, México, Saturday, January 30, 2016, 12:46 (3937 days ago) @ Casa Sandbar
Wasn't Centro once full of mangroves and wetland?
Not exactly. Our family home used to be the edge of town. The school Vicente Guerrero was on the bank of a lagoon that crossed in front of where the second pedestrian footbridge now is at a place that used to be known as El Vado and went all the way to where the colonia Darío Galeana begins. From El Vado a coconut grove stretched northeastward to where the airport used to be from the Bertha Von Glümer school to Infonavit La Parota, the housing project next to La Comer. My father-in-law had one of the nicest fruit tree orchards near the old airport that was expropriated and nowadays is a skating park and some ugly strip mall-type buildings. Cinco de Mayo street used to be part of the lagoon during the rainy season. The artisans market was never intended to be permanent. I don't believe any of the old palm trees remain from the old coconut grove or huerta, but some of my father-in-law's mango trees still remain in the skating park known as Los Mangos. You don't know what you've got till its gone!
Drainage?
by La Cumbre , Saturday, January 30, 2016, 17:53 (3936 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
Rob most of the water is ground water correct? if so then there must be some significant groundwater sources to provide water such as it does. Out of curiosity, does most of the water get pumped from groundwater sources in Ixtapa or nearby?
Thank you both
by Talley Ho , Playa la Ropa, Friday, January 29, 2016, 11:32 (3938 days ago) @ Talley Ho
That answers that!
