2:15 Minutes
City In Drought-Stricken California Dumps 550,000 Gallons Of Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1UcyRPWjMs
From the article:
“... Heat eventually got to it and there was a chemical imbalance of Chloramine. ...”
Why haven’t other reservoirs had this problem?
So how did the concentration of chloramine in the water increase? Did the city continue to pump in a fixed volume, not taking account of greatly reduced outflows? Where will the water come from to dilipute the reservoir? Could they have gotten an exemption from the regs? Was chloramine at dangerous levels? Or at a level where a rat would have to take in 5 gallons per day instead of 10 to maybe get sick? We aren’t getting the full story.
Does this mean I can quit having the dog do the dinner dishes now?
Blue Crystal Reservoir?
A reservoir is where raw untreated water is kept. It is normally chlorinated after clarification and filtration as it is pumped into the distribution network.
If they dumped 550,000 gallons of stupid from their reservoir of it, it wouldn’t even me measurable.
The author of this story first says that the water was perfectly good for drinking...but then later states that it was unfit for drinking.
Talk about your journalistic hit piece!
there was a chemical imbalance of Chloramine —
After heat got to it...
right...
Chloramine is added to water due to state regs. A little different than chlorine (more stable). Better economy for water company; worse for user.
Let’s some analysis. Concentrations, chemical reactions, etc.
“there was an imbalance” kind of like those pesky guns.
And finally “the heat” from global warming.
If anyone needs me, I’ll be outside kissing my 300’ deep water well. And then I’m going to go across the road and kiss the lake. :)
If you’ve got water, you’ve pretty much got it all. NEVER take that for granted!
I remember an interview with a woman who had made it to 100 years old. The interviewer asked, ‘What, in your lifetime, has been the best improvement in life?’ Her answer?
‘Running water in the house!’ :)
(I lived in San Diego, 1980-1982. We were in a drought back then, too. Funny how that happens when you BUILD A CITY IN A DESERT!)
All that hoopla over water for 4 measly households??? Ok, so last week the mayor should have declared a car wash day and saved the taxpayers’ dollars.
Talk about mismanaging resources.....
It’s not too much conservation, it’s too small of a reservoir.
So instead of lifting water restrictions that could have been used for things other than drinking they just dump it?
Typical liberal thinking.
Now the city will be forced to raise the price of water due to fixed costs and fewer gallons sold.
Well, I’d certainly be encouraged to continue conserving water.
Not.
A common problem in design of water systems ... the inability to recycle for treatment.
Most agencies don’t want to spend the money for looped diversion systems. It is not uncommon for unacceptable fresh water to be wasted.
Whereas with waste water treatment, there are almost always options for continued treatment, since unacceptable chemical or biological balance is a bar to discharge.
On the other hand ... this is a lot of hype that wouldn’t get noticed were it not for the drought. They say that volume of water could have fed 4 households for a year. In perspective Poway has a population of 49k people. That makes the water dump less than 1/100 of 1 percent of the home water use of the city, and this doesn’t count commercial use, which is likely twice to three times the domestic use.
The number sounds like a lot, and it looks like a big number, but in the overall scheme its not actually that bad and certainly not catastrophic. They treat over 4 billion gallons of water at their main plant every year in Poway, and that doesn’t include additional water sources such as wells that feed the system.
Sad? Yes.
Preventable? Probably.
Catastrophic? Not even close.
Consequential? Only if they let it happen continuously.
Verdict: media hype because the number sounds really big.
Why didn’t they make a deal with a farmer to run his tap to water crops?
They could have been paid for this water.
Recently we have had to open fire hydrants to flush water out of the system. The explanation we got is that the chemicals they use to treat it eventually cause it to got out of safe spec.
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“The amount of water released is enough to supply about four households for an entire year.”
What the Hey? Five hundred and fifty THOUSAND gallons is only enough to supply four households for an entire year? That would be more than three times as much water per house as my wife and I use. Are they taking a shower every hour around the clock?