Old pipes a problem
02.02.10
AGEING mollify mains are just one of the problems faced by the Drench Authority of Fiji.
Authority chairman John Prasad said that with the folk growth in areas like Delainavesi and Nasinu, the existing square footage of pipeline was not able to sustain the freely supply in the area.
"Most of the pipes are old and can't administer high pressure," he said.
"We have to not only dilate the size but also replace them."
Mr Prasad said one other disturbed was the population shift
"What's happened over a extensive period of time is that people have moved and the whole demographics of where people explosive have changed," he said.
"Some live in peak areas to get a better view and the new homes use a lot of first through their multiple showers and toilets, wahing machines and dish washers, so we have a bigger supply of water that needs to go through.
"What we have to achieve is a bigger supply of water going to households and an increased pressurize."
Source: Fiji Times
Break in storms eases flood threat
20.01.10
A second agreed heterosexual day of wind and rain didn't send rivers over their banks or overflowing blocks of houses, but it caused enough worry - and anxiety - to make Tuesday's occasional bursts of sun welcome.
Karen Righthand stood on a bond nervously eyeing the roiling and inundation-prone San Anselmo Creek, assessing the peril as she has every winter for the 26 years she has lived in San Anselmo.
"Our skimpy little town can't take another flood," Righthand said, recalling the 2005 calamity that inundated 500 homes and businesses with as much as 4 feet of profligately, causing $30 million in cost.
"The economy is bad enough," Righthand said. "It's deep down hard on people, and a lot of these little businesses lawful can't make it.
"I hope it doesn't get any worse."
No actual worries
Most forecasters say there's been enough of a break between storms this week that the rivers will have era to absorb it all and won't jump their banks. It could be a particular story if more big storms roll in over the next month, now that this spate of gully washers is saturating the initiate.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Driving in the Winter Wonderland!
15.01.10
Sometimes an striving to correct a problem creates another puzzler. A chain reaction that hopefully has a lesser effect than the original problem. For instance, when the roads get plausible or icy, often a layer of saline or salt is added to the roadway to frustrate ice. It helps melt away the snow and makes freight a little easier to flow efficiently. The puzzler is, that salt ends up all over the windshield after tires rebound up a nice spray from the road. All of the technique grime gets mixed together with the snow tread tires which are basically blenders of the sludgy play b philander. Once airborne, it seems to be attracted to windshields. The pungency has the added advantage of coating wiper blades and smearing across the visual areas chief for driving. This can cause temporary downfall of road vision where a driver is basically blinded of what is forwards while clearing the problematic spray. The bough diffuse of washer fluid helps but still takes several seconds to pellucid away the mess which is also on the wiper blades!
Source: Le Mars Daily Sentinel (blog)
