Major Water Main Break in Bowness Area

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Yeah I think with all the issues City Hall has had around "effective communication" with this boondoggle, the one lesson they've learned is "Underpromise and overdeliver"

3-5 weeks quoted and they'll be finished in 20 days so we can have the syphilis party

There’s the underpromising again, there’s a lot more than syphillis!

[Torture]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Here’s a F you I wanna hand out today. F you to Earls restaurants. Earls is stepping up in a big way by no longer offering water from the tap but you’re welcome to pay for bottled water.

We can use water to wash our dishes and make our food, oh but you want to drink some for free?? Yeah we’re conserving that water.

Pricks.

LOL. #######s.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

LOL,
It's here, but from 2006 so probably not super useful.



https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...&postcount=495

It certainly seems to peak for Stampede, but not dramatically different than the rest of summer.

Almost a perfect overlay with this graph of high temperatures that year - we had a heat wave in May, explaining the early peak that matched Stampede:

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/2349/20...Alberta-Canada

[Igotnothing]

The algorithm served this up to me.

https://youtu.be/2v697HNOLVo?si=1vm3O2m6rvm1mszB

[Torture]

Originally Posted by Looch City

Hahaha wow for real? Bunch of sleaze balls actually found a convenient way to profit from this.

Reminds me of another one I saw yesterday --- Spruce it Up garden center is allowing people to buy 'water passes' for their well water. Feels like an ####### move to me but the Calgary Gardening group is in love with them for it. What does CP think?

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by Torture

Reminds me of another one I saw yesterday --- Spruce it Up garden center is allowing people to buy 'water passes' for their well water. Feels like an ####### move to me but the Calgary Gardening group is in love with them for it. What does CP think?

Free if you buy a plant, any plant. Otherwise $20 for unlimited water until the restrictions end doesn't seem so bad. Sure they are probably making a bit of money on it, but probably not gouging.

[you&me]

I don't really see the big deal with Earls nixing tap water... Their other water uses are mandated by health and safety standards, so there's not much else they can do... I suppose nothing. They could instead do nothing. I just don't feel like eliminating tap water changes the value prop of having lunch at Earls and find it hilarious that anyone would think it would change their bottom line...

[photon]

I think the cost for a water pass is more to just have some sanity, if it was free they'd probably have traffic crippling lineups.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I would think a lot of Stampede water usage could be handled by some pumps to the river. All the cleaning, animal usage, Nashville North...easy swap to river water. I'd think.

Withdrawals from rivers, lakes etc. for industrial use is governed by the Province of Alberta and would likely require permits. Not impossible and you would hope the Province would step up to expedite the process but the Stampede couldn't just run some hoses and pumps and get after it.

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Here’s a F you I wanna hand out today. F you to Earls restaurants. Earls is stepping up in a big way by no longer offering water from the tap but you’re welcome to pay for bottled water.

We can use water to wash our dishes and make our food, oh but you want to drink some for free?? Yeah we’re conserving that water.

Pricks.

Yeah, It's not the same but free water in European restaurants is generally not a thing either. But you can buy bottled water. We're not used to it here but it is not unprecedented.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

Yeah, It's not the same but free water in European restaurants is generally not a thing either. But you can buy bottled water. We're not used to it here but it is not unprecedented.

I am sure Earl's new found fondness for European Restaurant norms is just a coincidence.....

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

Withdrawals from rivers, lakes etc. for industrial use is governed by the Province of Alberta and would likely require permits. Not impossible and you would hope the Province would step up to expedite the process but the Stampede couldn't just run some hoses and pumps and get after it. -snip-

Ya, I figured as much, but seems like something that could be figured out. Could you imagine the province not cutting red tape for the Stampede? It'd be the wild west out there...

[Rhettzky]

I was at the Earls downtown on Sunday and they were serving all the FREE tap water we could drink!

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

I was at the Earls downtown on Sunday and they were serving all the FREE tap water we could drink!

Wtf they were just wasting water like that? Bunch of ####ing ####s !

[Torture]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

I was at the Earls downtown on Sunday and they were serving all the FREE tap water we could drink!

Did you call 311 on them??

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

I was at the Earls downtown on Sunday and they were serving all the FREE tap water we could drink!

Don't they know we're in a CRISIS?!?!

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by you&me

I don't really see the big deal with Earls nixing tap water... Their other water uses are mandated by health and safety standards, so there's not much else they can do... I suppose nothing. They could instead do nothing. I just don't feel like eliminating tap water changes the value prop of having lunch at Earls and find it hilarious that anyone would think it would change their bottom line...

Mine and everyone else’s tax dollars and water bills pay for us to have clean drinking water available. Now, while there is an emergency going on, that does not give Earls the right to withhold the clean drinking water I pay for, meanwhile trying to scalp me for more money. This is not ok at all.

What I should have done was leave, but I had lunch with my wife and she was on a tight schedule. I won’t be going back however (the server wasn’t very good either).

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

I was at the Earls downtown on Sunday and they were serving all the FREE tap water we could drink!

This was on 130th, might just be a manager decision

[Bigtime]

According to the city briefing right now the two sections of pipe from San Diego will arrive later today.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Mine and everyone else’s tax dollars and water bills pay for us to have clean drinking water available. Now, while there is an emergency going on, that does not give Earls the right to withhold the clean drinking water I pay for, meanwhile trying to scalp me for more money. This is not ok at all.

What I should have done was leave, but I had lunch with my wife and she was on a tight schedule. I won’t be going back however (the server wasn’t very good either).

How did you pay for Earl’s water if you’re expecting it for free?

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Wormius

How did you pay for Earl’s water if you’re expecting it for free?

Look at your water bill, the fees associated with it, and you’ll have your answer