My Tesla Model X has not had to charge at the Davis Superchargers lately. It
does have to have mobile service on January 31
st. (My two front USB data ports have been "out" since December 24
th.) I'll be taking it to the convenient Superchargers there for that.
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Davis water? I've lived there since 1981. Many residents still purchase bottled water or get bulk water from a vending machine or a service. Smartest thing I ever did was to purchase reverse-osmosis filters.
Like many Valley towns located away from (i.e., lacking water rights to) the Sacramento River, Davis has historically relied on groundwater wells. The Central Valley of California was once an ancient inland sea, but I read that it began filling in with sediments towards the end of the Cretaceous Period, 80 million years ago. (
California Geologic Regions)
There were still dinosaurs and other large reptiles swimming/running/flying around then, correct? Placental mammals were evolving, through most were smaller than present-day rabbits. Some early birds around, too. No cave-people, though. Much too early for that.
That process took a long time; roughly 78.5 million years! But eventually the Sacramento (north) and San Joaquin (south) Valleys, together making up the Central Valley, became mostly dry land.
But the Central Valley still had vast tule marshes teeming with waterbirds until ill-advised human agricultural reclamation projects, culminating with a major push in the 1990s, destroyed most Valley wetlands. Ironically, parts of the Central Valley may someday relatively soon become, once again, a shallow inland sea due to climate change-caused rising sea levels exacerbated by, you guessed it, human activities. In a small, incremental way, Tesla cars are arguably helping to slow climate change. Much, much more is needed.
As a result Valley soils and groundwater, at least in some areas, contain salts/minerals left over from the that evaporated ancient sea. The (necessary) addition of chlorine didn't help. Tap water tasted terrible. What did it do over time to our internal organs?
Fortunately, the City has now supposedly been accessing some of Woodland's treated Sacramento River water, since 2016? (I personally haven't been aware of any change since I continue to use the reverse-osmosis filters at home.) Here is an
Update on that Davis water quality project. Whatever the current overall water quality status, I suspect that always-favored north Davis (see Post #
49) has better tasting water.
