West Texas is no stranger to water troubles. This water problem however wasn’t too little in the growing fields, but too much in the cotton gin where cotton harvested from the field is mechanically cleaned. One of the largest cotton gins in what is being called by some "the capital of certified U.S. organic cotton," the King Mesa Gin in Lamesa, had a groundwater intrusion problem in the basement area called the “press pit.”
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