TRUCKEE - IT’S THE WATER
Truckee water is sweet, just the way it comes from the ground. It’s filtered naturally, through tons and tons of granite picking up minerals and flavors, just like it has done for thousands of years. Collecting well beneath the valley floor, into the Martis Valley aquifer, it rests, aging not in French oak as is a popular libation consumed here, but in ancient, silent granite, miles thick.
There are no studies to substantiate the claims by certain residents of Truckee that the water is the elixir of health and strength for its citizens, but, it makes one wonder what part Truckee water played in the achievements of its’ skiers at the current Olympic Games. Is it true that Truckee athletes took gallons of Truckee water with them to the Olympics and sold it to other athletes for an undisclosed sum?
Curiously, during this time of over use of natural resources, the aquifer has maintained the same level year after year through droughts and increased usage. We wonder sometimes at the use by ski areas creating snow, but as the snow melts, the water returns back to its’ aquifer home in spring. So, it seems that we just borrowed the water for a little while.
All of the snow melt doesn’t quite sink into the ground, but runs off into the Truckee River. Here, it finds its’ way down the Truckee River Canyon, nourishes the town of Reno and then pours itself into what remains of the long extinct Lahontan Inland Sea at Pyramid Lake. One wonders if the Truckee water has something to do with trout growing to 20 Lbs. plus in Pyramid Lake.
