Major Water Main Break in Bowness Area

[Looch City]

Where's my white hat for reducing my water usage? This is ####ing ridiculous.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Looch City

Where's my white hat for reducing my water usage? This is ####ing ridiculous.

White hats for some, miniature Calgary flags for everyone else.

[Wormius]

Participaction pins and patches for the normies.

[Nyah]

Originally Posted by Looch City

Where's my white hat for reducing my water usage? This is ####ing ridiculous.

Admire your crispy, brown grass and give yourself a pat on the back knowing that you're better than the #######s on your street with pristine, green grass.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

White hats for some, miniature Calgary flags for everyone else.

That would be better if the civic flag didn't suck.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

She’s the Theo Fleury of cafe owners. She has had some diversity that was not within her control, and some that probably was. The place became a bit of an anti-everything place during and after Covid.

Her last event before Gondek blew up the pipe to spite her? A book signing for Tamara Lich. She is, of course, free to run her business as she wishes, but much like WOP guy, I prefer my food and drink without a dash of freedumb on the side.

I hope Clint isn't doing this all on contingency. But since it's a class action I suspect he is.

I will never understand public service industries who decide to alienate large segments of their clientele by wading into weirdo politics.

[Ironhorse]

So I understand the Bearspaw plant is running at 70% and has been for about a week. I recall someone telling me that we move away from restrictions when Bearspaw runs at 75% or higher. If that is the case, are they doing this on purpose now?

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

So I understand the Bearspaw plant is running at 70% and has been for about a week. I recall someone telling me that we move away from restrictions when Bearspaw runs at 75% or higher. If that is the case, are they doing this on purpose now?

It's all about government control mannn. They're just priming you to think this is normal.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

White hats for some, miniature Calgary flags for everyone else.

Which have a tiny white hat on them. Win win.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by bill bumface

it's all about government control mannn. They're just priming you to think this is normal.

Fifteen minute cities where you can only water your lawn 3 days per week.

RISE UP MY BROTHERS! IT IS TIME FOR REVOLUTION

[V]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

So I understand the Bearspaw plant is running at 70% and has been for about a week. I recall someone telling me that we move away from restrictions when Bearspaw runs at 75% or higher. If that is the case, are they doing this on purpose now?

As hilarious as Pepsi is, if you want an actual answer, there’s a big difference between rebuilding resiliency after a major outage and running normal operations.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by V

As hilarious as Pepsi is, if you want an actual answer, there’s a big difference between rebuilding resiliency after a major outage and running normal operations.

I don’t see how “there’s a big difference between two things but I’m not going to say what the difference is” qualifies as any more “actual” of an answer than mine.

Plus you didn’t even try for a joke. Boring and sad.

[Slava]

I heard a rumour that we're going back to stage 4 restrictions beginning on August 26th for some additional repairs. Anyone have any insight as to the validity of this?

[curves2000]

Originally Posted by Slava

I heard a rumour that we're going back to stage 4 restrictions beginning on August 26th for some additional repairs. Anyone have any insight as to the validity of this?

That wouldn't surprise me at all. Once things really hit the fan with the first break and they brought in additional equipment, crews and technical expertise from outside City of Calgary I suspected something like this.

Too lazy to look up the data but it was something like 5-7 areas of concern with the mainline in a 10 km section of pipe. The 100 year lifespan is effectively over as enough parts of it have failed.

What would the likelihood that the rest of the pipe needs repair and replacement and how does that apply to other watermain feeder lines throughout the city?

Hopefully that isn't the case but really it wouldn't shock anybody given what has happened.

[Slava]

I could see it also, and I don't think that it's suggestive of incompetence or anything like that. I just assume that what they did in June was an emergency repair job and there is still work to be done to complete things more fully or effectively. If that's the case, it kind of sucks, but at the same time maybe it's not as disruptive for as long this time because they can more fully plan for this.

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by Slava

I heard a rumour that we're going back to stage 4 restrictions beginning on August 26th for some additional repairs. Anyone have any insight as to the validity of this?

That's unfortunate if true. I was hoping they could limp along till winter when water use drops and the effects of more shutdowns wouldn't be as harsh.

[Nyah]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

That's unfortunate if true. I was hoping they could limp along till winter when water use drops and the effects of more shutdowns wouldn't be as harsh.

It's hard to service a bunch of underground infrastructure in winter. Speaking of, imagine if this kind of failure had happened during a -25 cold snap??

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by Nyah

It's hard to service a bunch of underground infrastructure in winter. Speaking of, imagine if this kind of failure had happened during a -25 cold snap??

The one big main break that happened on McKnight Blvd years back happened when it was cold like that.

It was -20 or colder, and I remember that the fire dept had to bring in their boats to rescue some motorists who were caught in the created lake.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-h...mony-1.6981086

This feels like a SNL skit. White hats...really?

I mean good for San Diego for sending those pipes but a white hatting ceremony is ridiculous imo.

How many threads do want to be laughed out of in a month? lol

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

The one big main break that happened on McKnight Blvd years back happened when it was cold like that.

It was -20 or colder, and I remember that the fire dept had to bring in their bats to rescue some motorists who were caught in the created lake.

How many bats did it take?