Bossier City has award winning water
 

Bossier City received a national award from the Partnership for Safe Water

I forget, does Bossier still get their water from Red River? If so, is that upstream or downstream of Shreveports waste water treatment plant?

I don't know about Bossier's direct water source, but there is a water treatment plant north of downtown Shreveport near the river.

Ever tasted the water from Hodge, LA? It's like drinking molten lead.

Bossier gets their water from north of town like Anime posted. When Cross Lake gets low they pump water from 12 Mile Bayou which comes from Caddo Lake. Yet another good reason to live in Bossier :p

This is good to know since I drink straight from the tap all day long. Everyone seems to be on the bottled water craze and I hear it's pretty much some other state's tap water.:rolleyes:

And now, for your amusement, here's a 2 minute clip of a cat drinking tap water. :D

Plastic bottles along with those plastic grocery bags are a major source of litter and a problem at landfills because the wind will catch them and off they go. Bossier City has many good things and their water system is one of them.

So let me get this straight. Bossier gets their water from Red River, north of Lucas treatment plant so it's OK since the river flows North to South? Are there any communities North of us that dump their waste water in the Red?It just seems like it is better to get drinking water from a lake or bayou flowing from a lake. Or are you saying they don't get their water from the Red but rather from 12 mile bayou just like Shreveport does (when the lake is low) Thanks for the explanation.

Bossier water comes from north of 12 mile bayou. I do not know if anyone is using Red River for waste treatment outside of a septic tank from homes ? Bossier does have a very good treatment system that is why they rank so high on water quality. I would not think anybody would drink the water south of Shreveport or Lucas Treatment plant.

Bossier gets it water from two places:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...&t=h&z=15&om=0

and

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...&t=h&z=16&om=0

Both are upstream of Cross Bayou. Twelve Mile Bayou doesn't intersect the Red River, it empties into Cross Bayou, which empties into the Red.

This is where they treat their sewage:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...&t=h&z=16&om=1

That reservior looks to be (strategically) built in the middle of an ox bow so it can be fed by the Red using pumps.

I think I get it. At any rate, I'd rather drink from Cross Lake than Red River. But I guess the reservior acts like a lake where suspended silt can settle out leaving green water instead of red. I would not be surprised to learn they had better equipment in Bossier than the S'port side.

At home I use a submicronic (and carbon) filter for my drinking and cooking water and for the icemaker. It works well but the micron filter is only good for about 1000 gallons of Shreveport water. Runs about 2 to 3 cents a gallon which is a lot cheaper than bottled water.

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KTBS -- Oct 17 2007 10:41 AM
Bossier City gets award for water quality