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Originally Posted by Fuzz
The city has cisterns all over, underground. They are like water towers holding storage and releasing it to neighbourhoods. Because of the break, their isn't enough capacity in the remaining system to move the water from the Bearspaw plant into these cisterns. So the levels drop through the day as consumption is greater than refill speed, and at night they can gain a bit back, but it sounds like they aren't refilling enough to offset the next days drawdown, so once those drain, that is when you lose water pressure, then water, then everything needs to be flushed for days before it is safe to drink. So if a cistern gets emptied, it's boil water advisory time.
This is my understanding from what I've read over the past few days. If any experts want to correct any of that, have at 'er.
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If this is in fact the process and reasoning, how is the city unable to distill and communicate this out to the masses. Along with metrics?
This event isn’t political, but I will never get government that won’t put this information into the hands of people. People aren’t dumb.
Playing this obtuse boogieman to people, then letting pro sporting events go ahead, just sows distrust. Then people start to tune out, until water runs out. Then they are for sure grabbing pitch forks.