Major Water Main Break in Bowness Area

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Honestly, it's just never been an issue in all my 47 years. I don't garden, but still, watering a garden from a hose has been standard issue gardening going back to my grandparents' garden.

I just have some bushes intermingled in my xeriscaped yard, but I'm getting a rain barrel now. Also have been totally not minding navy showers and I used to just stand there in a disassociative state for a good 30 minutes. Turns out it is actually super easy to cut back on a significant amount of water use. A lot of negatives with this issue, of course (livelihoods, discomfort, risky suspension of our redundancy), but some good lessons, too.

I don’t even see it needing to be an “issue”… it’s free water for your garden. It was the first thing we put in, before planting anything.

[Table 5]

Setting up a rain barrel system was on my to-do list this summer. Should've done it early I guess...especially now that rain-barrels may be the Toilet Paper of this year.

[flamesfever]

Originally Posted by Locke

Although seriously, it seems like things got a little slack in terms of oversight, its not Gondek's fault regardless of my opinions.

No it's not her fault, but she could have given more attention to what was being said during the public's input on the rezoning. She was bent, come hell or high water, to ram that "rowhouses everywhere" policy through in spite of what was said.

I watched a large number of talks, and a good many people, some very knowledgeable and experienced, mentioned potential problems with infrastructure, particularly as it pertains to water.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by flamesfever

No it's not her fault, but she could have given more attention to what was being said during the public's input on the rezoning. She was bent, come hell or high water, to ram that "rowhouses everywhere" policy through in spite of what was said.

I watched a large number of talks, and a good many people, some very knowledgeable and experienced, mentioned potential problems with infrastructure, particularly as it pertains to water.

LOL. Good stuff.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by flamesfever

No it's not her fault, but she could have given more attention to what was being said during the public's input on the rezoning. She was bent, come hell or high water, to ram that "rowhouses everywhere" policy through in spite of what was said.

I watched a large number of talks, and a good many people, some very knowledgeable and experienced, mentioned potential problems with infrastructure, particularly as it pertains to water.

Since a mass conversion of SFH to MFHs has not yet begun, how is this at all relevant?

Seriously, people looking for any opportunity to gripe about the rezoning.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

I Can’t believe there are actually people who garden regularly who don’t have rain barrels….

I got into gardening and started using water barrels. I did that for two or three years and a couple issues came up that pushed me away. One was cleaning out the algae every fall which was a pain in the ass and even during the summer there would be times where a chunk of algae would come off the side and clog the spigot. Another issue was that it just took a lot more time to water the garden using the barrel although I could invest in a better system and hook it up to a distribution system but that is decent sized project. The other thing that was a big downside was that my collection volume was insufficient for regular watering especially when we had stretches of two or more weeks without rain. Again this could be solved by up sizing the system and building something more robust but that is a big investment.

I switched over to a drop irrigation system and a rain sensing timer. I have a lot more control and can easily reroute my system based on plantings every year. I also basically just turn it on and forget about it all summer and it requires pretty much no maintenance. It delivers water exactly where it needs to go with little waste.

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

I switched over to a drop irrigation system and a rain sensing timer. I have a lot more control and can easily reroute my system based on plantings every year. I also basically just turn it on and forget about it all summer and it requires pretty much no maintenance. It delivers water exactly where it needs to go with little waste.

Agreed on drip irrigation. Just finished installing a system the day before the main break for the same reasons you mentioned, and because I don't want roof water on vegetables. I don't trust the rain sensing features on my system, but the scheduling and remote control means really little water wasted.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

They’re just asking questions. Question eVeRyThInG!!!

Until your biases are confirmed - then you're good.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Rain barrels going for $65-$100 on Kijiji

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Rain barrels going for $65-$100 on Kijiji

Is that unreasonable? I have no idea.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Locke

Is that unreasonable? I have no idea.

Assuming it is a standard rain barrel it is reasonable. Green Calgary sells them every spring for around $80.

[accord1999]

Originally Posted by GGG

I wonder if that’s just simplistic messaging saying they glenmore is being used to fill all the reservoirs.

Yeah, we would be it a lot more trouble if Glenmore was the only plant working as its maximum potable water output is only about 400 mega L/day.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by flamesfever

No it's not her fault, but she could have given more attention to what was being said during the public's input on the rezoning. She was bent, come hell or high water, to ram that "rowhouses everywhere" policy through in spite of what was said.

I watched a large number of talks, and a good many people, some very knowledgeable and experienced, mentioned potential problems with infrastructure, particularly as it pertains to water.

That has no bearing on today’s problem though. Where the water is consumed does not affect how much is consumed which is the current issue with the main feeder brake.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by GGG

That has no bearing on today’s problem though. Where the water is consumed does not affect how much is consumed which is the current issue with the main feeder brake.

Nonsense. If we're going to blame her for a pipe installed 50 years ago, we can't let her off of the hook for anything, ever. That's how this works.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by flamesfever

No it's not her fault, but she could have given more attention to what was being said during the public's input on the rezoning. She was bent, come hell or high water, to ram that "rowhouses everywhere" policy through in spite of what was said.

I watched a large number of talks, and a good many people, some very knowledgeable and experienced, mentioned potential problems with infrastructure, particularly as it pertains to water.

Thanks, Obama!

[WhiteTiger]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1802432921049161970

[Zary's-Mustache]

So the city itself isn't even doing the repairs themselves. They have sourced out the sections to other companies.

Someone I know who is starting on one section tomorrow said it's likely gonna be longer than 5 weeks.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache

So the city itself isn't even doing the repairs themselves. They have sourced out the sections to other companies.

Someone I know who is starting on one section tomorrow said it's likely gonna be longer than 5 weeks.

Can you believe when you take your car to the mechanic they don't make the replacement parts themselves? Thanks Gondek!

[FurnaceFace]

Or…there are 5 sections to fix and The City doesn’t have the required manpower to do all 5 so they’ve outsourced. Also we know from Rondo (I believe) the company he works for was working on the first break. This shouldn’t be a shock, it’s typical of most organizations.

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

https://twitter.com/user/status/1802432921049161970

Interesting, so were replacing with just steel pipe instead of concrete. I imagine then that this pipe is thicker than the existing steel core of the PCCP to handle the pressure, I wonder how they are making that transition.