Good live update from the city on right now, with the water engineer providing high level overview of the system and how its impacted.
TLDR: Bearspaw can only feed north, and so is down to about 25% of production, taking ~40% of supply off the table to the city. The running out of water concern is indeed their ability to refill local reservoirs fast enough.
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Good live update from the city on right now, with the water engineer providing high level overview of the system and how its impacted.
TLDR: Bearspaw can only feed north, and so is down to about 25% of production, taking ~40% of supply off the table to the city. The running out of water concern is indeed their ability to refill local reservoirs fast enough.
Lol! The guy wearing his high-visibility safety vest for a Press Conference?
"Oh no! Its coming right for us!"
Wheres his hard hat?
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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.
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.
Co-op’s are definitely closed. Not sure if others stayed open.
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Temporary
Car Wash Closure
Due to the Stage 4 Water Restrictions in Calgary, Airdrie and Strathmore, we have voluntarily, temporarily closed our car washes to support these municipalities’ efforts to conserve water for essential needs. Our car washes in High River and Okotoks remain open. Thank you for your understanding.
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.
They aren't hiding this information. It's just a little too complex to distill into a tweet. I'm not on those social cesspools, but I suspect they are in fact linking to briefings like the one Ducay just posted...it takes a modest amount of effort to find more information if you want it.
And there is a balancing act in terms of how you present the severity of the situation. Presenting it as too dire can have counter-productive results.
The message is simple: conserve water. Not to the detriment of your health/hygiene, but eliminate all non-essential uses. This messaging applies to businesses in the same way as citizens...we opt-in if we're decent people.
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