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Per, Tom Monahan, an emergency request for Water was put in this morning to Aquaria. Toms FB page says takes 12 hours and Tom said " let's see if they come through"
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imagine if they simply said 'no' ?.... lol
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right now,” Carpenter said. “We anticipate other complications. We know there will be more.” The state has issued a boil-water order for Brockton and the Whitman. The order is expected to remain in effect for 24 hours or longer. The towns of Hanson and Pembroke also experienced problems, officials said.
The line runs through East Bridgewater but does not serve that town.
Brockton water customers in Hanson will be without service until the main is fixed, Hanson Fire Chief Jerome Thompson said on his Twitter account. MWe’re hoping [Brockton crews] can make the repair rather quickly and get pressure back,” Richardson said.
Otherwise, the town, like Brockton, will have to declare a state of emergency, he said.
Crews were working to repair the break Wednesday morning, but Studenski said there was no estimate for when it would be done. She did not know the cause of the break.
Carpenter, who heard of the break around 6:30 a.m., said his main concerns were public safety. A tanker is on standby in the event a fire occurs in Brockton, he said. MThe 24-inch pipe that ruptured was built in 1933, speaking to a need to invest in the city’s infrastructure, the mayor said. N“It speaks to any of the older cities in the Commonwealth with aging infrastructure,” Carpenter said. “We need a capital plan.”
So why do we have a plant that supplies water but takes almost a full day to get it?
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My guess is the pipes will be fixed and water flowing long before Acquaria ramps up? Why would we want to buy this plant again??
According to COB VIA FB
Maximum water supply was ordered at 6:30 am. It normally takes 18 hours to deliver water, but they actually started receiving water into the Brockton system from Aquaria earlier this afternoon. Aquaria's current maximum output is 3 1/2,million gallons per day. . COB uses [about 10 million gallons a day. So Aquaria doesn't solve the crisis. We are asking residents to curb all water use to essential needs only.
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So the emergency water plant doesn't supply enough in an emergency?
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dadof2 wrote: So the emergency water plant doesn't supply enough in an emergency?
...the buffoonery really isn't surprising
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If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
2/1/1938-5/4/2019
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Or you can go to the store .
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it'll be interesting to see what this water crisis will do to the crime rate in brockton.... my guess, if it lasts any significant time, is that we'll see it drop
take away a necessary resource for physiological survival, and suddenly people's priorities are going to quickly change.... cue, maslow's heirarchy of needs
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clifton heights wrote: This is unfortunate. I sense the local stores will be out of bottled H2O soon enough. It is shocking that the emergency supply is only 1/3 of daily usage.
What I find unfortunate is that the average person uses roughly 80-100 gallons per day of water. That definitely doesn't represent what is essential. Emergency supplies are to provide for essential needs. Not for water baloon rights, wet t shirt contests, calgon take me away baths, or illegal moonshine operations. Cooking and drinking are essential. Flushing your toilet when necessary is essential.
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Last night I had but a trickle of water.This morning it's only half of what I used to get.
As it is, my pressure has been so bad it takes forever to fill a glass of water never mind my washing machine. After the repairs are complete I pray I get at least the small amount of pressure that I had or I won't be able to survive. It's that bad. Example, using an outdoor hose, the water literally drops out of the hose like plop.
I'm actually scared that they will not turn the pressure back up to what is needed. I can't possibly live with less than what I had and that wasn't much at all. To me that pressure is barbaric.
And no, I can't afford to have my pipes blown out, plus I know they were supposed to do our street way back when. Creedon got his done, who lives a few streets away then they stopped. How convenient and amazingly suspicious!
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SeamusMcFly wrote:
clifton heights wrote: This is unfortunate. I sense the local stores will be out of bottled H2O soon enough. It is shocking that the emergency supply is only 1/3 of daily usage.
What I find unfortunate is that the average person uses roughly 80-100 gallons per day of water. That definitely doesn't represent what is essential. Emergency supplies are to provide for essential needs. Not for water baloon rights, wet t shirt contests, calgon take me away baths, or illegal moonshine operations. Cooking and drinking are essential. Flushing your toilet when necessary is essential.
The figures do not include just the "average person." What about the hospitals, schools, restaurants, and businesses that are included in those numbers??
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We're New Englanders and are tough. We go through power outages, etc. during our many storms and know from experience how to deal. Being without water is a lot different and something we hardly ever experience. I guess we don't realize the inconvenience until we're hit with it. I saved a huge bucket of water in case i needed it to flush my toilet, but I didn't need it. I never waste so used it to water my flowers.
If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
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Rest in peace
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In all my years here in the city, I have never remembered having to boil the water. Friends were joking, that people in their 40's and up can drink anything as we drank out of hoses, we didn't drink bottled water etc. our systems can handle it. Lol
This event shows why we need a secondary source of water...it could get pretty ugly around here if this ran for several days.
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If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
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Rest in peace
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Reverse phone calls will go out as well as postings on social media and COB website.
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