Hurricane Helene

Water company just posted this. This is their treatment facility. They pump water from the river and send it out to the utility districts in the county. The building was completely covered by water and all the pumps inside were destroyed. Emergency pumps will be delivered tomorrow I guess. Lots of water lines run across the river were completely wiped out. As of a few hours ago there was a 24 hour supply of water under normal conditions. They aren’t sure when they can get things up and running again. They said could be a day or could be a week.

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OverlanderJK said:
Water company just posted this. This is their treatment facility. They pump water from the river and send it out to the utility districts in the county. The building was completely covered by water and all the pumps inside were destroyed. Emergency pumps will be delivered tomorrow I guess. Lots of water lines run across the river were completely wiped out. As of a few hours ago there was a 24 hour supply of water under normal conditions. They aren’t sure when they can get things up and running again. They said could be a day or could be a week.

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Seems like a sort of repeat of Katrina (but different). It can easily take over a month to restore such services. The lead time on things like pumps is likely months if they are not in a warehouse somewhere
 
OverlanderJK said:
Water company just posted this. This is their treatment facility. They pump water from the river and send it out to the utility districts in the county. The building was completely covered by water and all the pumps inside were destroyed. Emergency pumps will be delivered tomorrow I guess. Lots of water lines run across the river were completely wiped out. As of a few hours ago there was a 24 hour supply of water under normal conditions. They aren’t sure when they can get things up and running again. They said could be a day or could be a week.

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What a miserable situation. Are you on a well or do you have city water? Being without electric is a pain in the ass but being without water is really hard, esp if you have animals.
 
bobfriesenhahn said:
Seems like a sort of repeat of Katrina (but different). It can easily take over a month to restore such services. The lead time on things like pumps is likely months if they are not in a warehouse somewhere
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As I said, emergency pumps being delivered today. They just have to hook them up which will be the downtime. Some parts of the county will be longer as their pipes were washed away in the river, not us though.
 
Ddays said:
What a miserable situation. Are you on a well or do you have city water? Being without electric is a pain in the ass but being without water is really hard, esp if you have animals.
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We have county water. The water company in the city supplies water to the five water districts in the county so it basically all comes from one place. We want to drill a well but nobody around here has them so I’m not sure how deep it would need to go. I’m guessing 100-200 feet is more than enough but our water bill is $25 a month so it’s hard to justify the cost of a well right now.

My fresh water tank in the camper is winterized and I don’t really want to open that just for a day or two. I think we will be okay if we lose it for a day or two.
 
OverlanderJK said:
We have county water. The water company in the city supplies water to the five water districts in the county so it basically all comes from one place. We want to drill a well but nobody around here has them so I’m not sure how deep it would need to go. I’m guessing 100-200 feet is more than enough but our water bill is $25 a month so it’s hard to justify the cost of a well right now.

My fresh water tank in the camper is winterized and I don’t really want to open that just for a day or two. I think we will be okay if we lose it for a day or two.
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Holy shit! At $25 a month, I would definitely stick with that. It'll easily cost you $40k or more to drill a well.
 
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