Major Water Main Break in Bowness Area

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by fotze2

And did the 5% matter if it is real?

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.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Only one way to know for sure. Next time no one do anything.

Like this time?

[Knut]

An old employee of mine was in the office today for a visit. I went out and told the staff/former employee that the water restrictions have been lifted. She was like "what water restrictions". Zero clue we even had any. I bet there a lot like that just oblivious to what is happening around them.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Knut

An old employee of mine was in the office today for a visit. I went out and told the staff/former employee that the water restrictions have been lifted. She was like "what water restrictions". Zero clue we even had any. I bet there a lot like that just oblivious to what is happening around them.

Probably because it didn't actually matter and the few online nerds who reduced and then proceeded to pat themself on the back for their own grand sacrifice are very few.

[kevman]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Like this time?

Now that restrictions are lifted I feel safe to say I didn't do anything different. Sorry.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by kevman

Now that restrictions are lifted I feel safe to say I didn't do anything different. Sorry.

Our recycling remained pristine and clean as a whistle.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by kevman

Now that restrictions are lifted I feel safe to say I didn't do anything different. Sorry.

I didn't have to change much, I found that a lot of the habits from the last round of restrictions just kind of stuck.

Its not like I'm jonesing to do tons of laundry or dishes or anything, really the only inconvenience was shorter showers. I can handle that for a couple weeks.

I feel bad for the people it really does restrict like people with gardens that they're trying to keep alive, things like that. And my mom...she's got one of those tankless hot-water heaters that take time to warm up and in the meantime the water is just flowing.

She is one of those people that follows all the rules. Strict and militant about recycling and compost, etc. so for her to keep the tap running until the water was hot was killing her.

[FurnaceFace]

We have on demand too and we would boil water in the kettle to clean pots etc...or I should say my wife would. As a caveman, I would be fine washing with cold water but that seems to rank up there with kicking puppies or something.

[Caged Great]

I personally didn't do any laundry since it happened. To be fair, though, I probably would have done it on this past monday anyway, so not really a big delay.

[Fuzz]

The trick with on demand is if it hasn't been used it awhile you give it a quick blip of demand, give it 15 seconds to fire, then run it. By the time the pipe water gets purged the unit is running hot.