This is a follow up on an earlier blog Water Running. The blogmaster is pleased update the BU family that the authorities fixed the pipes at the location. On behalf of the BU household we thank the civic minded BU family member for taking the time to highlight the matter AND the relevant authorities for…
This is a follow up on an earlier blog Water Running.
The blogmaster is pleased update the BU family that the authorities fixed the pipes at the location. On behalf of the BU household we thank the civic minded BU family member for taking the time to highlight the matter AND the relevant authorities for responding.
NATION NEWS today is reporting the HAMPTON PUMPING STATION is still DOWN, did Wily not hear yesterday or the day before the minister stated HAMPTON was back up and running ?
@Wily
We discussed this yesterday, the power outage screwed with the electrical system controlling water flow.
@John November 28, 2019 8:13 PM “My area was one of the last to get power after Tomas in 2010. It took a week. Yet I can’t remember water being an issue where I live, only power.”
My recollection is that after Tomas the water disappeared for a day or two, or more.. I had to travel a day or so after the storm, and I remember getting on an early morning LIAT flight and never have I smelled such a musty collection of human beings. There were people on that plane who appeared to be from all continents, and they all smelled equally musty…me too. I had done a little thing in a basin of water and wondered if i was good enough to travel. I need not have worried, all passengers were in the same dirty boat, I mean plane. I got to another island which Tomas had bypassed and fortunately i was able to take a bath before going to my official business.
So yes. The water disappeared during/after Tomas, otherwise why would a plane load of people not have taken their baths?
“did Wily not hear yesterday or the day before the minister stated HAMPTON was back up and running ?”
Only in their minds, ya done know how disconnected they all are from reality.
https://www.cbc.bb/2019/11/28/hampton-station-pumping-again/
In this picture I suspect that the 6 pumps shown will distribute the water pumped up from the submersible pumps below.
So lots of pumps at Hampton and they are not small.
There is some redundancy.
@John
Is the redundancy based on the number and size of the pumps or the backup power (UPS/generator) to keep the pumps working.
Backup storage resides in the reservoirs at Providence, Vineyard and Rising Sun.
I think they are the ones Hampton would supply on the Christ Church Dome.
On the other side of the valley there would be Ellerton that probably gets from Hampton as well.
The spread sheet in the 1978 Water Resources Study would show the distribution areas supplied.
The backup would be there because the pumps would be running normally until the breakdown or loss of power and the reservoirs would have water.
My guess is the BWA does not allow reservoirs to empty and all they have to do to make it so is to take them offline.
It is called water rationing.
No backup power generation is required, the pumps don’t need to cut in immediately after a power failure.
There will be consumers on the forced mains to the Reservoirs who may be inconvenienced.
If there is backup generation at Hampton (and I don’t know), it only needs to supply some of the pumps to supply the reservoirs mentioned.
The flow from these reservoirs to consumers can be controlled to prolong the length of time the reservoir retains water and can function.
It is also called water rationing.
Also, I saw major civil works a year or two ago along the spine of the Christ Church dome connecting I assume Fort George to Rising Sun.
If that is indeed the case, the BWA should be able to supply the reservoirs Hampton normally supplies and augment any deficiency occasioned by pump breakdown at Hampton.
The point many miss is the daily water consumption varies and is lower in the wet season (now) than the dry season.
For the moment I would guess BWA has an excess of supply over demand and has more wriggle room than if we were in the dry season.
The aquifers would be recovering from their exertions in the dry season.
The pumps and the excess of supply over demand would contribute to the redundancy and provide that wriggle room..
Nothing wrong in the BWA letting the public know it is experiencing problems as it will also serve to depress the demand and increase its wriggle room.
A guy I know in St. John a few months ago told me of the problems he was experiencing with the water rationing after the intense dry period.
If you recall the BWA advised of the need to ration water.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/09/27/water-rations-coming/
The objective of water rationing is to fill the reservoirs and build in redundancy to the water supply on a daily basis
Once rains came in in November he told me that BWA no longer turns off the water … at all.
Rain is magic, a gift from God!!
Wily thinks Barbados is up a dry creek and the canoe has paddles it no longer floats.
Essentially up a creek without a paddle. Let’s build more subsidized houses, more hotels etc. , will the people come if there is NO WATER.?
Wily Coyote
November 30, 2019 8:24 AM
Wily thinks Barbados is up a dry creek and the canoe has paddles it no longer floats.
Essentially up a creek without a paddle. Let’s build more subsidized houses, more hotels etc. , will the people come if there is NO WATER.?
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You can see that described in the 1978 Water Resources Study in the spreadsheet on projections.
All in the Public Library.
We’ve been there since the mid 90’s.
GOB’s solution, permissions for Golf Courses.
We are cursed with leadership which wants only to make a fast buck for itself.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/11/22/pm-unveils-personal-vision-2030s/
Every young person must be able to swim.
If we are up a dry creek, why not get out de canoe and walk.
“20/30 vision” is a vision measurement indicating a mild degree of visual acuity impairment at distance. The first number indicates the distance of “optical infinity” which is practically speaking 20 feet. The second number indicates the minimal size of letter that the person can see at that distance. A broad, but understandable way to interpret this (without getting into subtended angles and such) is: you have to get as close as 20 feet to make out something recognizable to the “normal” eye at 30 feet.
Caveat: “20/30″ is quite ambiguous -it does not tell you if you are using the left or the right (or both) eyes. And this only really applies to distance acuity – it tells you absolutely nothing about how good near vision is. While eye doctors do indicate this with “sc” or “cc,” even this additional sign does not indicate if the corrected vision (CC) is with contact lenses or glasses. Finally, these numbers are typically measured with 100% contrast -and there is not much in the real world that is deep black against a bright white background!
” The situation is so serious, said the minister, that some reservoirs are “completely bone dry”, while others that should have in excess of 20 or 30 feet of water had only three feet.”
https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/242899/reservoirs-bone-dry
So wuh they will wet those million trees with…lol
WURA-WAR-on-U
November 30, 2019 11:01 AM
So wuh they will wet those million trees with…lol
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Wee Wee
Signs encouraging motorists to stop and have a piddle on their adopted tree will soon be going up.
Correcting mistakes. Mash up and buy back ?
https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/11/30/partime-retrenched-workers-hired-for-project-work/
If some of you do not have anything constructive to commment why not go and eat a conkie or something?
@ David BU
There are constraints to development. Water ,beaches and land are the parameters within which development and growth take place. The points are valid and constructive.
@Vincent
Planting trees will not need artificial watering. Natural rainfall will take care of it. Water needs of the population is a different issue with too much runoff and inability to redirect to the aquifer/runoff.
@ David BU
I can see that you know nothing about gardening. Transplanted saplings do need water from the potable supply in the early stages and often beyond.
@Vincent
You are saying we do not have enough rain water to manage the process? Even John agrees that there is enough rainfall.
Vincent Codrington
November 30, 2019 2:50 PM
@ David BU
I can see that you know nothing about gardening. Transplanted saplings do need water from the potable supply in the early stages and often beyond.
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It’s true.
Water works magic.
I planted about 40 mango trees a few years back and left them.
They are alive still but small in comparison to a second batch I cared a bit more.
A breadfruit tree grew up close to its parent maybe 2 years ago.
It is a damp spot.
It has on young fruit already.
RE So wuh they will wet those million trees with…lol
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Wee Wee
Signs encouraging motorists to stop and have a piddle on their adopted tree will soon be going up.
MAKES SENSE………THE UREA IN THE URINE IS A GREAT SOURCE OF NITROGEN REQUIRED FOR PLANT GROWTH
RE Transplanted saplings do need water from the potable supply in the early stages and often beyond.
THIS IS ALSO VERY TRUE
One(1) million tress will be needed in the near future for making CHARCOAL, just import some Haitians and they’ll show you how its done.
No WATER equals NO FOREIGN CURRENCY that equates to NO Natural Gas, No diesel, No Bunker C for BL&P therefore CHARCOAL is going to be in HIGH DEMAND, thus the million trees.
The block of land at Codrington which is in the process of being cleared drains into Waterford Bottom and from there into the Belle Gully.
It meets the runoff from the St. George Valley and the Hothersal Turning area under the steel bridge which supports the main that feeds reservoirs from the pumping station.
From there the runoff flows under Tudor Bridge, passes the Globe Roundabout and out to sea via Constitution River.
We run the risk of the same problem that befell St. Lucy a couple of weekends ago.
Uncontrolled runoff with a high flow rate.
The Botanical Gardens might look nice when complete but if the drainage is not understood it could create major problems downstream !!
I was told Tudor Bridge washed out in 1948 and I am pretty sure it was replaced in the 70’s after the flood in my lifetime.
Whoever doing the Garden better have their head on right!!
I left out the main flow of water from Coffee Gully in St. Joseph, through Applewaithes, under the bridge at Cane Garden which was swamped in the flood and replaced in the 70’s, then to Warrens and The Rayside Quarry to Waterford Bottom where it joins the run off from Codrington.
It’s the last straw that breaks the camel’s back!!
Let m removable e point out that in the picture above, there are no shower heads. This is a good move> Have it functional, but with the minimum of equipment.
I noticed that the turn-off/on valve is missing for one of the pipes. Hopefully, someone can come up with an ugly “government looking” replacement.
We fixing from the ground-up.
Let me point out that in the picture above, there are no shower heads. This is a good move> Have it functional, but with the minimum of equipment.
I noticed that the turn-off/on valve is missing for one of the pipes. Hopefully, someone can come up with an ugly “government looking” replacement.
We fixing from the ground-up.
@ Wily
Really? Remember the 2010 Haitian earthquake? The cutting down of trees added to the damage. Just go to the Scotland District for a measure of the risks.
We need lots of trees, fewer cars and more people walking and riding bicycles.
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