Calgarians would rather have a bridge collapse than pay $10 more per month in property taxes. They’d even accept the bridge collapsing with them on it if the alternative was $20 more per month.
Then blame the city for letting it collapse.
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The City of Calgary is considering micro tunneling to create a twin line along the precast concrete portion of the Bearspaw south water feeder main.
The information was delivered by city administration during a water plan update at the Feb. 12 Infrastructure and Planning Committee meeting. There, they provided an update on plans to solidify Calgary’s water service over the next several years.
While there are few firm details, the twinning plan could include up to five kilometres of redundancy along the Bearspaw segment of the line that has precast concrete and steel wire reinforced pipes.
I look forward to learning how this is Jeromy Farkas’ fault!
I already read that the fluoride did it, and accepted that as fact.
Oh, and the other cause is that we pay city people too much, so we don't maintain infrastructure. You know, but just digging up all the water pipes every year to "maintain them".
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Hopefully our overall water consumption is low enough in the winter that this won't be too big of a deal? Jan 2025 usage was about 475M litres per day which is about what the savings target was during the last feeder break.
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AHS, City declare boil water advisory for residents and businesses of Parkdale, Montgomery and Point McKay
Quote:
The City has enacted its Municipal Emergency Plan and Stage 4 Water Restrictions for outdoor water use such as rinks, snow-making or other large outdoor water usage. Indoor facilities such as pools, rinks and recreation facilities are advised to implement their water reduction plans.
As part of our efforts to manage water supply during this critical period, we need everyone to take simple but impactful steps to reduce indoor water use:
Limit showers to under 3 minutes.
Flush toilets only when necessary.
Run dishwashers and laundry only when full.
These voluntary actions will help share water currently available.
He's also mentioned there will be no official word from the city until the assesment report at 6am (be ready for an emergency alert).
Now the real question will be how good will his hair look..
I know you are not supposed to read the comments, but holy ####. The difference between the reasonable discussion on Reddit and whatever the #### is going on in the Xitter thread is stark. It's like hundreds of Curves2000's and Fonz's all going at it.
Probably, I don't go there much, but when I do, I use Xcancel so you can actually read stuff. I clicked on a few randomly, like this insightful comment:
Anyone in a job where you have OPEX budgets knows how this can happen. I had an asset in spurh Alberta and the annual budget needs to be prepared, you put in proposals for major maintenance and capital spends such as major compressor overhauls or high risk pipeline inspections.
They say propose a budget with projects and spends in this whole song and dance charade, instead of just giving you the number and they start cutting things they should not.
This is probably multiple admonistrations over decades of pushing off spend 'until next year'. Then a catastrophic failure happens and they play stupid. Its kicking cans down the road because they will likely not be holding the bag.
But at the same time you cant just give out blank cheques.
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The city got caught off guard on the last one, but I don't recall what the plan was going forward? I had assumed "replacing the whole thing" was the ultimate goal, but was that plan for the next 5 years, or were they hoping to hold on longer?
I know they are building a new main up north that would maybe allow this one to run at lower pressure? But at this point, even that looks like wishfull thinking. Might have to up my rain bin game if I want a garden this summer...
The city got caught off guard on the last one, but I don't recall what the plan was going forward? I had assumed "replacing the whole thing" was the ultimate goal, but was that plan for the next 5 year,s or were they hoping to hold on longer?
I know they are building a new main up north that would maybe allow this one to run at lower pressure? But at this point, even that looks like wishfull thinking. Might have to up my rain bin game if I want a garden this summer...
Yeah, it probably wasn’t replace it next year.
But clearly Calgary has a bit of a problem now with this pipeline.
