Real World Situation

[mikeo80]

Here in Fayetteville, NC, we have been treated to a major water shortage problem.

It seens that at one of the two water treatment plants, a 48 inch high pressure pipe burst with the resilts being 3/4 of the city having no water, the rest of us having very low water pressure. (That is the area I am in)

The local utility has managed to reroute the water supply to other systems and slowly brought the water pressure back up to normal.

Now comes the another part of the puzzle. We are also under a boil water restriction until further notice. Probably Sunday will be the ending point to this part of the problem.

When I was out doing some of my "honey-do" list, I noticed people buying large quantities of bottled water, no doubt to remove the need for boiling water. (BTW, the local utility recomended a five minute boil!!)

Here come my questions.

1) As I understand the position of the break point, it is down system of the area where our water is treated. If the water is treated, who cares which pipe you use? Or am I missing a point that I have no knowledge of? I read something on the order that if that water did not keep flowing, problems could develop.

2) In your experience, can you explain the long boil time? If this was totally untreated water, sure, no question. I know that the river we get our water from is considered a very active one for biological life in the water. (Read little green beasties that would LOVE to get into YOUR intestinal track.) The local utility uses chlorene and ammonia to prepair our water.

Just thought I would share the situation with you all and see what your thoughts are. IMHO, in a T2K or TMP situation, clean water would be of UTMOST importance in trying to stabilize an area.

Mike