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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PumaMan" data-source="post: 1733172" data-attributes="member: 76052">Where I live in Tucson, which is over a Basin and Range aquifer, the aquifer is about 700 ft down.  Geologists say that it would take water about 800 years to percolate from the surface down to the aquifer--where I live.  Now, we only get 12 inches of rain per year here (it's the Sonoran Desert), and my "garden" is not situated so that water can run through it during a hard rain.  So, any synthetic fertilizer I would use would not reach the aquifer for 3200 generations.  I think that by then it would be broken down or leached completely out of the water.Besides, every house out where I live has a septic tank--these have to be putting more noxious stuff into the aquifer (800 years from now) than my occasional use of synthetic fertilizers.</blockquote>