Mother Earth News 1999 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub

Water

Silver City’s municipal water comes from two well fields, one located three miles southwest of town, the other roughly four miles due west. At each field, water is pumped from the ground into booster stations, where it is chlorinated (for purification), then “boosted” to elevated storage facilities nearer to town. From there, the water is gravity fed to an estimated 7,000 homes and businesses. (Much of the nation relies on similar, low-tech waterworks.)

Silver City’s wells and booster stations are computer-operated, says the town’s utilities director Robert Esqueda, but that’s not his biggest worry when it comes to Y2K. “If automation fails, we can operate the system manually,” he says, adding that his main concern is electrical power-or the potential lack thereof. “We’re looking at securing large-scale generators to run our two or three biggest producing wells and the booster pumps.”

Silver City also plans to start the New Year with its gravity feed water storage tanks filled to capacity. That’s 7.25 million gallons of H2O enough to last the town about five days-longer if citizens ration their consumption.

Between the stored water and what the generators will pump in, Esqueda is confident he’ll be able to keep a sufficient supply of water flowing. Municipal crews will be manning the wells and the booster stations during the rollover, ready to switch to manual overrides and generator power at the first sign of trouble.

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