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Originally Posted by fotze2
And did the 5% matter if it is real?
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It had the potential to. I heard near the start of this break that the potable reservoirs total about 475 ML (no idea if that is max capacity or typical amount replenished to each night). Levels would fluctuate throughout the day and then be topped up at night; I would think they achieve full capacity most nights (except maybe summer heat waves?), but the low use on Christmas Day should have meant everything was topped up heading into this break.
But now it may not have been possible to fully replenish the reservoirs every night when our use exceeded the amount they can distribute from Glenmore. There's a lot more nuance to the numbers than what they present, but if we were out consuming the replenishment by 20ML most days that 475 might be down to say 275 or less...but that's the amount we start each day with. By 9pm maybe we'd be down to 50ML in reserve across the system - just a few million in each reservoir (but some in the deep north probably struggling the most). One house fire or another feedermain break of any significance or immediate failure on BPSFM and we could be in big trouble.
All speculative totally make believe numbers. A 10am fire in Cedarbrae or Tuscany might still not be a huge problem (though it would hurt the overall storage situation), but a 10pm fire in Whitehorn could be dire. I bet we were only drawing down by 5 or 10ML on our higher use days, but even that would catch up with us eventually.