Major Water Main Break in Bowness Area

[Gundo]

Originally Posted by V

I'm surprised to hear that. With the McKnight break in 2004 they had boats out rescuing people. That transmission main wasn't as big, but it was winter, so with a bunch of frozen CBs there was nowhere for the water to go. That was a wild one.

Hahahaha that was long my time. Although for those who remember the large break in Cochrane this approximately 4-5 times of that lines flow rate.

No real updates as of yet aside from the City working to secure a series of 12” pumps for potable water approximately 6-7km’s to try and increase available water to draw from other facilities. In addition they are also sourcing pumps to increase capacity at the Glenmore waste water facility as well.

The biggest unknown is still the break itself. Sounds like our crew won’t be able to start excavating to locate and size up the rupture until at best late day tomorrow at worst Sunday mid-end of day. Then the real work begins. Also keep in mind the water leak came from the weakest point and the actual break itself could be a kilometre Away and any infrastructure that was compromised by the running water will have to be excavated and repaired as well.

Based on our last update I would personally expect water restrictions to remain in place for 5-7 days conservatively. But that situation is fluid (haha see what I did there) in the meantime PLEASE don’t be one of the jackwagons that is coming down to try to get a look at everything. All you’re doing is getting in the way and pissing everybody off.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Nyah

Rain barrels for the win! I'm actually really impressed with how much water they've accumulated in a couple weeks, they're almost full. It's the first year we set them up, good timing for this urban gardener.

What a win! I put some in at our house too just before that last huge dump of snow and the melt from that filled them up. They’ve both stayed almost full, one dipped to 2/3 full at one point but with last weeks brief rain, back to full! 110 gallons total

[Locke]

We're never going to flood Sunnyside at this rate.

[chemgear]

Costco sold out of all their toile . . . er, bottled water yet?

[PepsiFree]

Can’t imagine what would make people want to go down there and take a look.

“Water? On the ground? Oh #### I HAVE to see this.”

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Can’t imagine what would make people want to go down there and take a look.

“Water? On the ground? Oh #### I HAVE to see this.”

"OMG natural disaster. So much tap water that has escaped its natural habitat."

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

Handwashing dishes, holding off on your loads of laundry, no watering lawns / plants, etc. all makes sense but asking people to just not bathe entirely is... interesting. Seems a bit extreme -- like maybe say let's reduce shower times, no baths, that kinda thing. But you just can't expect an entire modern population to not bathe, especially for how many days?

The country is going to think we’re Oiler fans by Saturday.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by GGG

This is going to kill lake bonnevistas neighbourhood ranking.

Not among the trout in the lake it won’t!

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by Benched

shower with a buddy, two showers at the same time!

Updating my Grindr to say this

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

It’s a team consisting of pre teen kids that has figured out a way to extract as much money as possible from parents who think their kids are future olympians.

It’s like any other travel team. You’d think all you need is budgie smugglers but nooooooo you need to pay for bla bla bla thanks for the $5k now your kid (probably) won’t drown when they fall in a lake.

So we don’t get to see you in your German marble bag?

[DylanScores]

Originally Posted by Benched

shower with a buddy, two showers at the same time!

Just make sure not to wash your legs to save more water!

[OldDutch]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Can’t imagine what would make people want to go down there and take a look.

“Water? On the ground? Oh #### I HAVE to see this.”

The best part in the early days of the 2013 flood was working to bail out my basement, only to look up to Crescent Heights Road and a packed house gawking

It all is forgiven the response in the days ahead was amazing, but yes people be people. Rubbernecking is a human thing

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by DylanScores

Just make sure not to wash your legs to save more water!

Not this weekend, but I’m always available for birthday parties.

[Barnes]

I drank 4 beers and 3 Palomas tonight and haven’t flushed my toilet. I’m a god damn hero.

[V]

nm

[Bigtime]

Seeing stuff this morning that we are still consuming more water than we can currently produce...

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by Barnes

I drank 4 beers and 3 Palomas tonight and haven’t flushed my toilet. I’m a god damn hero.

If Calgarians don’t stink today, they’re selfish bastards!

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Brendone

If Calgarians don’t stink today, they’re selfish bastards!

I thought we were allowed super fast showers now.

[Bigtime]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1799087906998661536

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I thought we were allowed super fast showers now.

Wet wipe to the pits, and no bidets