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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
I saw a comment online that suggests that Tuscany, for example, shouldn't have to conserve water because we are served by the Bearspaw treatment plant. Upstream of the issue, so to speak.
Is there any truth to this? It seems like an oversimplification and possibly incorrect, but i don’t have the knowledge to debunk or confirm.
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Tons of truth. Most of the water from the Bearspaw plant goes to the city through the broken main. But it also goes straight north to the portion of the city west of Nose Hill Park. That pipeline network isn't really interconnected to the rest of the network. So those of us that live in that area our conservation isn't helping anything. Bearspaw plant has tons of extra capacity and our pipeline network isn't stressed.
The city isn't saying this because people are morons and would assume that anyone in the NW was fine to go nuts, which isn't true. And then other people in the south would be like, "well, the NW doesn't have to cut back so I don't have to either." Basically the only reason for restrictions in that area is that people are idiots.