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Bump 'cause my wife is freaking out now that I advised her not to light candles in the house after informing her I need at least $1500 to do anything productive about it.
I have a considerable amount of methane in my well water. Milky and bubbly. I can fill a soda bottle from my kitchen tap and light the tip as it bubbles off. Preliminary "experimentation" shows a constant 6" #48 torch flame off of 2 GPM water flow rate. I'm fairly sure the methane is "biogenic" not "thermogenic" as there is no fracking in my area. This means it should be from a source close to the surface (500 feet deep) that does not contain shale related impurities (5000 feet deep). I'm going to run a methane/ethane ratio lab test to confirm... but either way the goal: to provide water to my home that does not go boom at the kitchen sink and provide compressed and bottled CH4 for cooking/heating.
Henry's law states that gas will bubble out of solution as pressure decreases or temperature rises. So here's the plan... please scrutinize.
1) My 300' deep submersible pump provides 30-50 psi H20 w/ dissolved CH4 to a 20 gallon 48 psi pressure tank. Standard normal; double spring check, gauge, brass well tank tee, blow off, and 30-50 switch.
2) I will pass the water from that tank through a 10 PSI regulator and one way spring check... and into a circulation loop. I'm eyeing a LF215 Watts Regulator, I'm curious how low a traditional hydronic regulator can be tuned down, and I'm also curious about the flow rate of those cheapo abs $10 drip irrigation 10 psi preset regulators; I could probably gang 10 together in parallel for less than a Watts 215 series. The goal being create a low pressure circulation loop just like a hot water baseboard system, but a little lower pressure than the usual 20 PSI and no added heat.
3) The low pressure circulation loop; my "methane scrubber" will contain:
3.5gpm circulator,
50g glass lined contact tank, aka "hot water tank" but with no heating element.
40 gallon well tank set to 8psi,
1-1/4 "Spirovent" air eliminator,
3/4 "Spirotrap" 5 micron dirt eliminator for prefiltration (since I'm already circulating),
30 psi pressure relief,
and a pressure gauge.
I'm aiming for lead free brass parts. Spirovents are much like a #67 maid-o-mist auto air release that you find on top of a baseboard hot water radiator.... but a lot more fancy and can actually capture finer dissolved bubbles. Think $150 part vs $20 part.
4) To repressurize my water: Drawing off the water circulation loop will be a traditional shallow well Jet Pump and a 4th well pressure tank 20 gallon 48 psi; this tank will have a standard normal gauge, brass well tank tee, blow off, and 30-50 switch. This pressure tank will then supply domestic water to the home free of methane at normal domestic pressure. This assembly will be spring checked before and after. Drinking water will be further purified downstream with traditional filtration methods and water testing. I'm looking into KDF85 backflow type filtration.
5) On the gas vent side of the spirovent: There will be
a second 40 gallon well pressure tank set to 8 psi,
a 10 psi gauge,
a 10 psi pressure relief,
and a second adjustable 0-100 air pressure relief valve set to ~9 psi.
A tee, an on/off supply valve, and gas check will provide 9 psi CH4 supply to appliances I'm hoping I can use standard "low pressure" 11 inch water column 3/8 regulators thereafter and propane appliances. I confirmed with a spirovent rep that their vent would work with methane and function with back pressure on the gas end. I will store this pressure tank outside my home as one would a propane bottle; adding additional parallel pressure tanks as necessary.
I suspect I'll have some degree of CO2 in my CH4; bubbling it through some water should help purify the gas of carbon dioxide. I'll probably have a bit of H2S in there as well... I suspect I'll be able to filter that out using iron oxide; perhaps rust water impregnated wood pellets in a 4" PVC pipe as a filter media which should sequester the sulphur.
I've also considered an open to the atmosphere "column of water" gas storage approach with a pair of 275 gallon fuel oil tanks. I'd stack the tanks above one another and connect them from drain to drain. I'd then fill the lower tank with water and leave the upper tank open to the atmosphere. I would use the 10 PSI CH4 gas to evacuate water from the bottom tank; regulating pressure with the height of the upper tank. This might be the safer and more cost effective method. However, for consistent fuel pressure I might need a float valve and overflow in the second tank to maintain water level. Using the column of water approach also poses challenges with outdoor storage in cold weather; so I might have to give up on the float valve in favor of RV antifreeze.
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Last edited by presence; 06-22-2013 at 02:48 PM.
Bump 'cause my wife is freaking out now that I advised her not to light candles in the house after informing her I need at least $1500 to do anything productive about it.
David Letterman mentioned gas in the water too.
So first they ruin the water supplies, and then they privatize water supply for profit?
I think David is right.
Why do corporations believe that they can ruin the air we breath, and the water we drink, as long as there is profit to be made for stockholders. It's our air, and our water. Nobody owns rainfall, sunlight or air.
So Presence, in Wisconsin you have that problem?
Last edited by Terry; 06-23-2013 at 12:42 PM.
I agree that shallow wells should not be fracked, as that could cause problems with aquifers above it. However, I do not believe that fracking deep wells causes problems.
Methane burning at my kitchen sink.
Methane flaring off my garden hose
Spirovent Superior Vacuum Degasser
My schematics for vacuum degassing
(some modifications from my original post)
1)removal of the expansion tank from the recirculating loop to induce 0 psi state
2)Separating the spirotrap and spirovent circulation loops to pull from different locations in the tank; trapping from heavy water at bottom of tank and venting light water on the top of the tank.
3)Using a simple 1/4 valve for incoming flow restriction rather than a pressure regulator
Schematic for methane bottling in water column
The middle tank in my degassing schematic is a "re-purposed" hotwater tank. It is being used without heat as "vacuum tank" only. The "cold water supply" to house is after the last 80 gallon tank. It will then enter a 10x54 backwashing carbon filter and branch off to a traditional electric (for now) hot water tank downstream.
The boxes with the double [ // ] are spring check valves; arrows indicate direction of flow.
The boxes of the same size with handles are 1/4 turn ball valves.
The 20 and 80 gallon tanks are "Well Pressure Diaphram Tanks" both set to 48 psi
Below each pressure tank are 2 check valves, a 75 psi blow off, a pump switch, and a guage; standard normal "well tank assembly"
The other items are 2 @ 1-1/4 Spirovents and 1 @ 1-1/4 Spirotraps
There are two Taco Stainless 006 1/40hp circulators
and one 1/2hp "shallow well pump"
The two cycle timers are "ART-DNe cycle timers"
The daily timer is just a 24hr intermatic heavy duty
System temperature is always 50-55F well water; pressure in the center tank is regulated by the 1/4 turn valve after the first well tank and the Timer actuating the Jet Pump. Pressure in both the 20 and 80 gallon well tanks should be between 30-50psi. Pressure in the middle tank should have a lower range depending upon the power of the Jet Pump; I'm expecting about 0-50psi in the middle tank. See the youtube video of the computer controlled "spirotherm vacuum degasser".
On a hot water tank the H and C connection are on top. The cold connection has an internal down tube. The bottom connection is called the drain and the upper side connection is the "blow off connection".
The second small circulator loop pulling from the drain hole on the hot water tank and returning to the "blow off connection" port contains a Spirotrap which should remove particulates down to 5 micron. Oversizing the Spirovents and Spirotraps should slow down flow and encourage a higher % gas/particulate removal on the first pass.
In the attachments should have been a diagram where I was storing the CH4 in a system of two "275 gallon fuel oil tanks" These would be outside of my home and contain a water column of RV antifreeze which would store and supply 2-3+ psi methane depending upon the height of the second tank relative to the first. The methane would enter the top of the lower tank and evacuate the RV antifreeze to the upper tank. The upper tank would be open to the atmosphere and allow excess CH4 to bubble out.
Before entering these tanks I would allow the methane to bubble through a water column contained in PVC; or multiple columns to scrub CO2. I might make use of an air stone to disperse. The methane would then enter a PVC pipe containing "wood pellets" that had been soaked in a slurry of iron oxide and water; then dried out to about 15-20% moisture content. This exposure to iron oxide and moisture should scrub off any H2S.
System cost for just the methane degassing and capture process is about $1600.
That does not include the following which I already have:
Pex Tubing (but not fittings)
Salvaged Hot Water Tank
2 Salvaged Fuel oil tanks
Salvaged Jet Pump
My existing 20 gallon Well Tank and Assembly
The backwashing Carbon Filter and UV are going to add another $1000. Hopefully the UV filtration solves some other excess methane issues we've been having.
The two cycle timers will work "in parallel". The system will always be "on for one minute every 30 minutes" during 6AM to 12 PM. Because the circuits are parallel, the system will ALSO be "on for one minute, off for one minute" any time the 80 gallon well tank calls for pressure. Overlap of the parallel timers could push the system to occasionally have an on cycle for up to 2 minutes.
The cycle timers are of course adjustable. The 1/4 turn valve after the first 20 gallon tank also provides user control. Through adjusting the timers and the 1/4 turn valve one should be able to fine tune the low pressure created in the middle tank; thereby maximizing degassing.
The nipples that enter and leave a hot water tank must be "dielectric" which prevents galvanic corrosion of dissimilar metals at the tank connections. This is usually accomplished with plastic lined galvanized nipples, dielectric unions, or both. On the two upper connections "the hot and cold of the tank" I'm going to use threaded schedule 80 3/4" x 10" CLEAR pvc nipples as degassing indicators. I'll also use some short sticks of 1/2 clear pvc as "bubble gauges" to indicate methane leaving the spirovents. 10" pieces pre threaded in male pipe thread are about $10 each.
"Note, accurate calculations of chemical equilibrium for real gases should use the fugacity rather than the pressure. In the case of the methane-water interaction, it is also necessary to include the polarization energy in an effective way to obtain agreement with experiment."
Last edited by presence; 06-25-2013 at 07:51 AM.
I'm not actually in Wisconsin... for some reason your board "automatically" entered that as my location when I signed up. For privacy I'd rather not disclose my location, but I will say I am in Marcellus Shale at least 20 miles from the closest fracking site and my water has been like this for at least 2 years. A methane/ethane ratio test would tell me if the methane was "swamp gas" related, which is quite plausible as I'm in the bottom of a valley where two creeks come together; or if it is shale gas related. Methane/ethane ratio of 1000:1 is usually swamp gas whereas 10:1 is more indicative of shale gas; beta and alpha particles, voc's, and heavy metals should only be in the deeper 5000' shale gas; whereas the 500' deep swamp gas should be clean. Typically methane / fracking related issues occur within 1 mile (often less) from the well head.
Terry I could really use some "expert plumber" advice on my engineering. I'm looking to buy parts asap to move forward with this. My schematic is a reverse engineering of what is happening in the "spirovent superior vacuum degassing" youtube. Unlike the computer controlled "superior" model my degasser relies on cycle timer controls and a 1/4 turn valve to restrict incoming flow rather than an actuator. I'm hoping to use the cycle time and the 1/4 turn to induce a cyclical 0 psi state in the re-purposed-for-vacuum "hot water tank" in the middle of the diagram.
1) Will it work?
2) Would I be better off simply putting a big boy $400 2" spirovent jr on my incoming supply line after my 20 gallon well pressure tank and "calling it done" with no recycling or vacuum extraction? The spirovent tech support told me their vents were "designed to be in recirculating systems and are not designed to capture all gas on the first pass, though oversizing does increase % of capture in a single pass" They offered no technical suggestions as far as methane removal, saying it would be treated as any other gas by their vents. I'm concerned that a "single pass" method would not work as the gas is extremely dissolved milky at 50F from my well. Its not until it sits in my lines for a bit that it begins to bubble out. Spirotherm does claim that their vents remove "dissolved gas" but they also recommend locating the vent immediately after the boiler; where the gas has likely already "bubbled out of solution".
3) It is also possible (and more common) to create an "open to the atmosphere" degassing arrangement... I'm avoiding this because the cost is about the same (or more given what I have on hand) and my method should provide pressurized methane whereas the open top method will only off gas to the open atmosphere. It will also require a large 200 gallon tank to be stored indoors or buried at ground level due to freezing concerns. Should I reconsider?
4) Sticking with my vacuum degassing plans, what size pumps and tanks should I need? I'm looking at 1-1/4 spirovents/traps and Taco 006SS circulators, 1/2 hp Jet Pump, 20 and 80 gallon pressure tanks, and a 50 gallon hot water tank. All plumbing will be 3/4 pex; oxygen barrier because I have a bunch of it on hand.
5) Do I get any bonus points for most interesting questions from a new member?
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So You have to use a torch to burn the methane ?
You do get Bonus points.
Work on taking the Hydrogen out of the water, and stop wasting your time.
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Actually it will light with just a simple acetylene "flint spark lighter". I use the mapp torch to light the sink because it lights it instantly; a bit safer than waiting on a good spark while the gas builds up in my house.
The torch tip on the bucket contraption has no additional feed of any other gas besides what is bubbling out of my garden hose.
I actually have experimented a bit with HHO dry cells; it took lots of electricity to get as much fuel as is boiling off freely from my tap water.
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Moving on towards "vortex degassing". Major cost savings in parts and also major savings in long term electricity usage:
I'm looking at ART-DNe cycle timers and 3/4 actuator valves for the sediment and protein purge; one set for each so I purge at the highest flow rate. Maybe 30 seconds nightly to purge from bottom then top?
Cycle Timers
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Purging will be manual at first; no extras until degassing is perfected.
Its starting to shape up into a neat little system that doesn't use much power. Degasses methane, skims off the skuzz and drops off the metals. What more can you ask for?
My planned loop also contains Catalytic carbon in a "big boy" 20 x 4.5 canister and a UV filter.
Though they will probably be put off until I'm degassing effectively.
I'm eyeing Winter's Gauges for the system; they will come with my first order to help with fine tuning.
in 0-60psi for water, -30Hg-60psi vortex, and 0-15psi for methane.
Taco SS006 circulator:
Spirotherm Spirotop methane vent:
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I'm going to pexsupply.com all the fittings... better selection on schedule 40 pvc than anything local.
Something I'm also looking at, downstream, is a second vortex loop to treat hydrogen sulfide with kdf85 & garnet that stays in suspension using another Taco 006SS w/ a lower vortex input point. KDF is finicky, very heavy, and requires oxygenation and fast movement to work best. Its so heavy it tends to clog up in most "canister" or "backwashing" situations. By vortexing it I should be able to keep it moving though. I'd feed it w/ a "DEMA 206 venturi injector" sucking air off one of those "bare bones ozone generators" on amazon;
the second loop would off gas w/ a second spirotop. I'd pull my final "re-oxygenated water", with H2S and any heavy metals reduxed, from a well oxygenated place in the vortex near the top. In the process I'd be creating a pressurized air/oxygen mix out of the second vent.
That is, along w/ super clean, oxygenated water, I'd then have pressurized CH4 and O2 on tap:
Mixable torch fuel.
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Ok here are my latest plans. Changes were made after educating myself on "vortex breakers", "pump cavitation", "inlet design", "free surface vortices", etc. and then further refined to reduce part cost. I also redesigned my output ports so they end in threaded stainless: PVC/CPVC transition bushing to CPVC/MIP stainless transition. With stainless output ports I can reliably disconnect and reconnect if need be in the future.
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I love the drawings and the concept.
I just have no idea whether that will make the Mars Mission possible or not. It's intriging.
We have boring water in Seattle. Ours is surface water from the mountains.
Maybe I'm way off base, but wouldn't it be easier to use a bubbler system similar to a radon abatement system to pull the gas off the water?


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Like the title says, I want to know how a female hyena's genitals look when aroused, flaccid and during courtship and or after.
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LONDON - Multiculturalism has become a contentious issue in the U.K., especially since Prime Minister David Cameron declared in February that it had failed and was partly to blame for fostering Islamist extremism. But the tragic bombing and shooting in Norway on Friday has thrown a new spotlight on the issue here: Anders Behring Breivik claimed to have connections to British far-right groups like the English Defence League and said in his manifesto that he wants to "save" Europe from Islam.
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"I agree with him, I'm sorry. I'm fed up with political tolerance. This is a Christian country, you abide by those rules. When I lived in Dubai you couldn't have a church, you couldn't wear a cross. It's a double standard. Muslims are trying to take over the world, I'm sorry.
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"If [multiculturalism] is handled well it works beautifully," Patrick Lamb says.
Ghaffar Hussain, head of outreach at the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think tank in the U.K.
"There's a new form of extremism, focusing exclusively on Muslims and Islam and a perceived threat. It's about people creating an atmosphere of hate and paranoia. [The far-right groups] create the mood music, they allow individuals to get engrossed in that view, but they don't promote violence.
"An attack here is possible; I think it's likely within the next five years. Not at that scale, but something will happen. Already few mosques have been attacked, there have been isolated incidents."
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"I did feel [an attack like this] was going to happen sometime. People can be frightened of multiculturalism, afraid of outsiders and don't assimilate well. If it's handled well it works beautifully. But I didn't think it would be such a bloody reaction. I can accept that what happens on one side of terror can happen on the other side of terror.
"The fact that it happened in Norway, the most liberal of countries, means it could happen anywhere. [In the UK] there is an unspoken fear that we're being overrun by immigrants. They live cheek by jowl but they don't mix."
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"On the whole I think (multiculturalism) works. I work with young people from all sorts of different nationalities and they all get on really well. It definitely can work. You're always going to get animosity – you can get animosity amongst any group, whether it be about ethnicity, whether it be religion… it could be anything. But this generation is much more open-minded.
"It definitely could happen here. People like that just need an excuse to do these sorts of things."
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"We should be vigilant about Muslim extremists but we should be vigilant about all extremists. We're so concerned about Muslim extremists, but seem to be unperturbed by right-wing fascists. This guy in Norway labels himself as a Christian conservative. We have Islamist terrorists – why don't we call these people Christianist terrorists?
"In Britain you don't have this culture of random violence… but we're in for a rough time. The government and the press need to go after the English Defence League and the British National Party with same vigor as they're going after al-Qaida and the Taliban and militants."
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Mohammed al-Hussein stands in front of his convertible near Edgware Road in London.
One day after that, the EDL issued a second statement defending itself after it emerged that Breivik claimed to have had contact with the EDL: "No form of terrorism can ever be justified and the taking of innocent lives can never be justified. We are proud to stand strongly against all forms of extremism and we will continue to speak out against the biggest terrorist threat to our nation, Islamic extremism."
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Two East County schools nabbed top overall honors at the state Technology Student Association Conference this weekend.
Falling behind Southeast High School, Lakewood Ranch High's team won second place Overall High School honors.
Haile Middle School finished in third place for Overall Middle School.
These awards are cumulative awards that represent superior performance for all categories entered.
The Manatee County School District was also represented by Buffalo Creek, Braden River, Harlee, Johnson, Lincoln, Nolan and Sugg middle schools, and Braden River and Manatee high schools. Competing in a total of 74 events, Manatee's students took home 86 top three finishes and a total of more than 607 top 10 student finishes.
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger is the incredibly popular and controversial psychotherapist who hosts a nationally syndicated, top-rated midday radio talk show. She has strong convictions and doesn't hesitate to voice them to callers. She urges women emphatically to lose a domineering jerk of a lover and pick one of the "good guys," to stay home and parent the babies they've made, and to follow the dream rather than some dreamboat. Above all, she exhorts women not to blame anybody or anything but themselves if they're unhappy and their lives seem a mess.
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Fans of the 1967 Ford Mustang convertible don't have to wait until they find one stashed in a barn or hiding in a used-car lot to live the dream--they can build one.
Ford has added the body shell of the '67 Mustang convertible to its catalog of licensed restoration parts. It is the fourth classic Mustang body to be offered by Ford. The others are the 1965 convertible, the 1967 fastback and the 1969 fastback.
The all-steel body of the 1967 convertible has a list price of $15,995. The body is manufactured by Dynacorn International of Camarillo, Calif., using virgin automotive-grade steel that is slightly thicker than the steel used on the original '67 Mustang convertible. Dynacorn also adds additional reinforcements to give the body greater strength and rigidity than the original car.
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A Portland man was charged with arson after investigators said he set his ex-wife's home on fire.
Gay marriage supporters and opponents are both pushing to get their initiative petitions on voter's ballots this November.
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TELLURIDE – The Commission for Community Assistance, Arts and Special Events has once again done its magic, deciding how to divvy up almost a quarter million dollars of town funds among local events, arts organizations and regional nonprofits for the coming year.
As usual, there were winners and losers in the process, with some organizations (San Miguel Resource Center, One to One Mentoring, Chamber MusicFest) getting 100 percent of what they asked for, and others (iCAST, SMARTS Park) getting zilch. Most applicants, however, fell somewhere in the middle, winning some but not all of the money they had requested.
During budget season every year, the Telluride Town Council allocates a chunk of money to CCAASE to distribute through grants. That chunk increased by 10 percent a year ago to a total of $237,500. It includes two discrete pots of money. One goes to arts organizations and special events, and the other focuses on a wide array of programs and community services – mostly nonprofits – that preserve or enrich the health, education, welfare and fitness of the community.
The arts and special events community this year received grants totaling $137,500 to support activities within the Town of Telluride that address the CCAASE mission "to develop, maintain, and encourage the expansion of an environment conducive to festivals, performing arts, visual arts, and special events."
Community support organizations, meanwhile, received grants totaling $100,000 "to support activities and programs that are accessible to Town of Telluride community and encourage the development of an environment conducive to healthy community organizations that provide programs for citizen welfare and education in the region."
CCAASE took over the process of deciding how to distribute town funds to various groups and organizations in 2005. Before that, every organization and event committee looking for a hand-out went before the Town Council individually for funding. "It took up too much time," Gilmer explained. Now council lets CCAASE do the hard work of deciding who should get how much money.
All CCAASE funding comes from town sales tax revenue and other town taxes. While it may seem like resort-town largess to dish out dollars in this manner to entities that have nothing to do with the day-to-day operations of the town, Telluride officials see their annual CCAASE budget allocation as an investment in the local economy.
"We are trying to help the community; a lot of this money goes directly back to the town in taxes and fees," said longtime CCAASE chair Ron Gilmer. "Our program is the envy of many communities."
General themes of this year's CCAASE funding allocations included more funding for arts organizations, preschools and daycare centers, and community support organizations that are fulfilling a demonstrated need in the community, and less funding for some smaller festivals and organizations that failed to meet various grant criteria.
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7. Outreach efforts and number of participants; and
8. Compliance with Town of Telluride policies.
The CCAASE committee consists of eight members who are appointed by the Telluride Town Council. Members include representatives from the local school district and a community service organization representative. Each fall, they assess a new batch of grant applications starting in late September. Working individually, each board member considers each grant request and divvies up the budget to get to bottom line. Town staff then takes the average of all eight board members' funding recommendations for each category, throwing out the high and low amounts.
In early January, the CCAASE board convenes for a review/discussion process to determine if the resulting figures are acceptable, finally coming up with a recommendation which goes before council for approval.
"The process is working out beautifully," said Town Manager Greg Clifton. "CCAASE does an admirable job of distributing the funds. It's the one thing they really wrestle with."
As for the groups that didn't get funded this year, Gilmer said, "It's not that they aren't worthy; they are new and need to hone their proposals, and also they asked for a lot of money."
The CCAASE grant allocation process welcomes new applicants each year. This year, for example, the Many Hands Fiber Art Festival won $2,000 in funding.
New board members also bring new priorities with them. Several board members now give more weight to a festival's overall impact on the community when deciding how much money to allocate. Thus, festivals with low numbers of participants (such as the Yoga Festival and Mushroom Festival) got a lot less funding this year than they had asked for.
"Another group we cut back on was the Colorado Avalanche Information Center," Gilmer noted. "They do a lot around here, but we cut back a bit to be more in tune with what other communities were giving them; we had been giving more than Vail and Aspen. Moneys are tight and we had to figure out what the best use was."
The 2013 grant process debriefing took place at a CCAASE meeting last week. Grant applicants will be receiving feedback shortly.
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CCAASE recommended the following grant amounts for 2013, which were approved by the Telluride Town Council in late January:
Community Assistance Arts and Special Events
Academy 11,150Ah Haa 12,000
Adaptive Program 8,685AIDS Benefit 3,000
Avalanche 1,500Balloon 2,500
Bright Futures 2,145Chamber Music 4,000
iCAST 0Choral Society 5,530
Lacrosse Club 1,180Film Festival 9,755
Mental Health 12,905Jazz 8,305
Mountain Sprouts 2,500Many Hands Fiber Arts 2,000
Nordic Association 4,000Mtn. Film 9,000
One Telluride 2,500Mushroom 2,500
One to One 6,655Palm Theatre & Arts 12,000
Pinhead Institute 4,630SAF 12,000
Prime Time 2,125Sparky Productions 3,500
Rainbow Preschool 3,000Telluride Arts 34,000
San Juan Field School 1,610Telluride Theatre 10,000
SMRC 13,000Telluride Tourism 1,235
SM Watershed Coalition 1,670Wine Festival 3,175
Second Chance 3,765Yoga Festival 3,000
Ski & Snowboard 4,000
SMARTS Park 0
Soccer Club 2,000
Toddler Town 2,980
Watershed Education 2,000


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SXSW kicks off next year on March 9 with interactive and film events. The music festival starts March 13, showcasing more than 2,000 acts from around the world on dozens of stages throughout the city.
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Washington, DC, May 14, 2002—The Competitive Enterprise Institute and Consumer Alert's case to allow advertising of the health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption must wait for a new rule from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, an appeals court has ruled.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
In its decision released Friday, a panel of the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a lower court decision that the case was not ripe because ATF had not yet issued its forthcoming rule on alcohol beverage health claims. The rule is expected within several months. CEI had argued that ATF in fact already had a ban in place on moderate consumption health claims, and that this ban violated the First Amendment. In recent years, several Supreme Court decisions have made it clear that commercial speech concerning alcohol is entitled to a high degree of constitutional protection.
"The appellate court's ruling did not address the merits of our case, only the ripeness," said Sam Kazman, CEI's general counsel. "It's possible that, in its new rule, ATF will come to its senses and recognize that truthful speech in alcohol labels and ads cannot be suppressed. If ATF fails to do so, then, one way or another, its censorship will end up facing court review."
A large number of scientific studies have established the fact that moderate alcohol consumption reduces the risk of heart disease. This fact is even noted in the federal government's own Dietary Guidelines. Nonetheless, ATF has refused to allow alcohol labels and ads to even contain references to those guidelines.
For more information about this case, please visit CEI's website at www.cei.org [2].
CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. For more information, please visit our website at www.cei.org [2].
[1] http://cei.org/contributor/cei-staff
[2] http://cei.org/