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hipboots - 2004-09-23 08:08:46 I saw that, hipboots, while heading home. They were scooping up water with a big...one of those big scooper things. Scoop truck. Whatever.* * * * * * * * * * * * lynne - 2004-09-23 10:30:46 EMU sent me an email about that but I didnt see it for myself. I guess a water main broke. I hope it wasnt one of the new ones they've just put in. * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-23 10:32:16 I hope it wasn't one of the new ones too; I didn't think of that. It was quite the mess yet vaguely exciting.* * * * * * * * * * * * raymond - 2004-09-23 10:42:46 Winter promises to bring a test of the new water lines. Vulnerable places in the old lines froze and heaved and burst long ago and were somewhat stable. If the new lines are even covered by February, let's hope those which are covered are covered well. Every household in town should keep a supply of bottled water this winter, I suggest. Actually, we all should have some stored in the pantry all the time. You never know but what (the person formerly known as Cat Stevens) is planning an attack.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-23 10:49:33 Poor Cat Stevens is on the no-fly list; I heard that, too. He changed his name to Yousef Islam. I kinda wish I had a well instead of city (originally lake) water--cash-strapped Michigan might one day build a big straw connecting Lake Superior to Las Vegas and that will be the end of that.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-23 11:10:11 Here's a strange fact. The hardness of AA water varies by season, "ranging from 110 mg/l [whatever that is] in the summer to 170 mg/l in the winter," according to the city's mildly interesting water faq which is next door to the photo spread of the 4 city dams, two of which generate power.* * * * * * * * * * * * Tuesday - 2004-09-23 12:34:46 I live on Ford Lake and the taste of my water varies dramatically. Which is odd considering I don't get my water from the lake. I don't recall this happening in any other apartment that I have lived in in Ypsi. Perhaps it has something to do with hardness, I don't really know but yesterday it tasted steely and gross. I keep bottled water on hand all the time for cases like this. In other open thoughts, I'm having one of those icky days. You ever have those? You have weird, unsettling dreams the night before and you just can't shake that bummed out feeling? That's how I feel today. I can't wait to snap out it.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-23 12:40:03 I am suspicious of the changing water taste and wonder if there's a low-cost test you could have done. And I'm glad you don't get your water from Ford Lake--no one should, eeuuuw. Oh yes, I have icky days, by all means. I hope you feel better. And it's fun to find out blog-readers' general regions or spheres of influence if you will. I don't know where ypsidweller lives, but I know his general neighborhood, and that's true for a number of other readers as well. Kinda fun to know the zones.* * * * * * * * * * * * raymond - 2004-09-23 13:52:58 One problem with a well of one's own is that when the electricity goes out, no water. Even if we pee in the bushes and go out somewhere for the other, we need a minimum of 20 gallons of water per day for animal care and hydration, including the humans. There's also the danger of encroaching subdividians with their pavings and pollutions. However, the water out here (knock, knock, knock on wood) remains clean and tasty. Should the well fail, the county and township with all their combined wisdom would require us to connect to their municipal ooze at a cost more than double the considerable cost of a new well.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-23 13:56:23 I forgot the electricity-going-out part, you're right, that happened when I was growing up in my mom and dad's home, but not in my city-water home (and my natural-gas stove lets me cook during blackouts, too, so it's not too bad). I love the mineraly taste of well water, though. 20 gallons, wow.* * * * * * * * * * * * lynne - 2004-09-23 19:35:01 My parents have a well. But they also have a generator. Before they got the generator, they would bring water up from the lake for toilet flushing. * * * * * * * * * * * * leighton - 2004-09-24 09:47:05 No telling what could seep into wells all over SE Michigan, especially in industrial-from-the-start Ypsi. There is some talk (from wealthy land owners on the water board) of abandoning some or all of the dams to on the Huron to "create natural flow....(and larger back yards)"* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-24 09:52:32 You're right, come to think of it Leighton--it might be a tad dicey drilling in Ypsi. motto: "Ypsi: Too Filthy To Drink." That's odd. To create "natural flow"? Why do I suspect those people could care less about natural flow, fish spawning, &c.? * * * * * * * * * * * * lynne - 2004-09-24 10:07:54 Wouldnt getting rid of the dams mean a higher risk of flooding? I live on the top of a hill (well about as close to "hill" as you'll get in Ypsilanti) so I am not too worried about that but I'll bet there are some folks closer to the river for whom that would be a concern. * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-24 10:11:53 Good question...probably would, I guess--I imagine the dams (doesn't the entire poor Huron have over a hundred dams along its length?) would "dampen" storm surges. I also live on very high ground like you and so am not worried--but the Water Street condo people would be washed away. If they *ever* get going on that project, that is. Not that I would mind, just personally, if it remains a permanent explorable urban wasteland.* * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |