Just outside Carbondale, major water issues occur-
at 5PM Wednesday Rend Lake water reported a 36" water pipe rupture-
Marion forced all Hotel/Motel, bakery's, Restaurants, beauty shops and bars to close
Im not an engineer or anything but how does such a key system not have a backup system?
Im not an engineer or anything but how does such a key system not have a backup system?
It would be a redundant system not a backup. Who would pay for it? Who would you install it now the town is built?
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand
Im not an engineer or anything but how does such a key system not have a backup system?
It would be a redundant system not a backup. Who would pay for it? Who would you install it now the town is built?
Doesn't Marion have its own city lake for water?
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand
Im not an engineer or anything but how does such a key system not have a backup system?
It would be a redundant system not a backup. Who would pay for it? Who would you install it now the town is built?
Doesn't Marion have its own city lake for water?
If they had one, it was clearly built for a smaller town that didn't use nearly the amount of H2O they use now.
Im not an engineer or anything but how does such a key system not have a backup system?
It would be a redundant system not a backup. Who would pay for it? Who would you install it now the town is built?
Doesn't Marion have its own city lake for water?
If they had one, it was clearly built for a smaller town that didn't use nearly the amount of H2O they use now.
Marion has tried to build their own water system for the past 2o or so years. They have 1500 acres but environmental groups have fought it because an endangered salamander, or some such critter would lose its habitat. Judges have ruled against Marion 2 times, I believe.
Im not an engineer or anything but how does such a key system not have a backup system?
It would be a redundant system not a backup. Who would pay for it? Who would you install it now the town is built?
Doesn't Marion have its own city lake for water?
If they had one, it was clearly built for a smaller town that didn't use nearly the amount of H2O they use now.
Marion has tried to build their own water system for the past 2o or so years. They have 1500 acres but environmental groups have fought it because an endangered salamander, or some such critter would lose its habitat. Judges have ruled against Marion 2 times, I believe.
Marion has had their own water system, it was not large enough to handle their business growth, they have tried to enlarge their system and build their own water reservoir, but cannot get Environmental clearance to build it. (some rare 2 toed salamander that lives along the creek they want to dam...) It ain't easy to build a lake for water storage.
They fought with the Army corp to get on Rend Lake water as which supplied west of 57, but not East for a long time, because of the water drainage (west of 57 goes to Big muddy & Mississippi Rivers, East goes into the Wabash & Ohio rivers)
Im not an engineer or anything but how does such a key system not have a backup system?
A parallel pipe was slated to be added next month to prevent this sort of thing. It probably should have been done sooner in hindsight.
