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| All I know is what I was told about ten years ago when Forest Service incident manager on fire above my house. I called fire in late Sunday afternoon caused by lighting. No crews or equipment to bring in that day. So he called in bombers, they were flying around 70 miles from us to load.
Two planes worked the fire for a few hours if I recall. He sat in our driveway on radio, told me each load was over eight grand or so. I'm thinking 5 or better loads. Knocked fire down, and then brought helicopter early morning with hand crew. He took them top, they walked down to fire line. Then helicopter then hooked bucket and dipped water from pond less than a mile from fire line, he just hit hot spots in trees that flared up.
Helicopter camped at pond, food brought in and helicopter transported food to fire crew for three days on hill. One dozer could have worked this fire. Also forgot to add for every air from plane you have spotter plane running the route and in air controlling tankers.
I watched the phos-chek in water, helps grass grow. But seen it color lava rocks for more than 10 years. Finally washing off rocks.
As for water pricing on pumped water for government I've charged anywhere from .01 gallon to .10 a gallon. Sometimes just day money like 100 bucks a day unlimited dipping. It just depends on how snotty government people were to us. I just was worked over the coals again from Forest Service supervisor yesterday from working on a canal easement we had had for more than 120 years before they even had control of the land.
It caught them with their pants down, as they didn't even know their own land and easements. Yet they tried to put blame on us. They ran this little job from $3,000 to over 10 grand because the women rumming the office don't even have a clue to read their own documents or maps. Even after I sent the government documents to them to review. The really funny part of the story is supervisor asked me again where I got those documents. I told her to walk down her hallway 6 doors to their realty specialist. She could explain it all to her. | |
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Cost of airplane water
