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Mighty fine

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  1. Took the kayak down to bastrop yesterday to try and do a little fishing. No luck finding fish so I decided to paddle around a bit, then came across the remnants of these two. Have heard lots of stories of bucks getting locked up; pretty neat to come across it in the wild. 20210306_153713.jpg

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  2. Fire department running around everywhere dealing with 500 plus water pipe issues on top of other issues. On the local news tonite they said it takes 24 hours to test for bacterium in the water that would constitute a water boil notice. I would as another poster suggested consider all water to be bad unless told otherwise. Jmo. But I am not a city official. It just seems safer that way. I have no water going on 60 plus hours so what do I know? Lol.
    The news is a little off. You automatically go into boil water notice when certain conditions present, such as low system pressure. The 24 hr bac-t test is used as a confirmation test that it either is or isn't present, so minimum boil notice duration is 24 hours
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  3. It seems like there would need to be a LOT of ice in the pipe to increase pressure enough to burst the pipe somewhere other than where the ice is. 
    Regardless, if I have a pipe burst, I won't give a shit about why at that point.
    Not really. If the water completely fills the pipe (no air) and begins to freeze, it tries to compress the unfrozen water. But since water is not compressible*, and if it's not allowed to vent, you'll see a pretty significant pressure build up. The freezing water is basically running an uncontrolled hydrostatic test on the piping.

    I had always assumed it was a hoop stress in the frozen section. Thanks to TwiceHorn for his post a couple nights ago; after thinking about it, his (and phd's) explanations are on the money.

    *practical truth, not universal
  4. JoJo did her job, and she will continue to protect your child with her life. 
    If she gets aggressive for no good reason, then training would be required.
    Regarding JoJo, this is spot on (especially for dogs with shepherd in them). In my experience, obedience training won't get rid of this instinct; you have to get more into the attack/guard dog training, and this comes with some other trade offs.

    She just said enough of this shit and laid down the law to Henry; you are correct in your assessment that Henry's got to go.

  5. Article said he's stable and lucid. Will likely need a bit of rehab, but it's amazing how far medical advances have come on this. Not the death sentence it once was if you can get to hospital fairly quickly

  6. Hmm, interesting. Not uncommon in surface water supply (stagnant water areas). That the city uses groundwater is a bit of a head scratcher. Could be an 'old water' issue from water in dead end mains, but I'd wager its a contaminated ground storage tank at the bwa/ city connection (top of the head, non informed assumption).

    Good news, easily rectified (pending they can quickly id the source).

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    El Paso has the largest inland desalination plant in the world.
    https://www.epwater.org/our_water/water_resources/desalination
    One distinction on this: El Paso is brackish groundwater desalination. With brackish desal, your going on the order of 5000 mg/l to less than 1000 mg/l of total dissolved solids typically using membrane filtration, freshwater blending, or a combination of both.

    With seawater desal, your looking at going from 35,000 mg/l to less than 1000 mg/l tds with your treatment system. That additional level of treatment compounds both your capital and operations cost. Corpus is looking at seawater desal, but it's some expensive water.
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