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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Many, many years ago, when I was in college, I ran the municipal swimming pool in our fair town for 3 summers.  Now, by "ran" I had zero to do with lifeguards, concessions, whatnot.  I was the ugly kid who was given the task of making sure the PH levels were fine, that the ratio of piss to water was satisfactory, switch over the chemical tanks when they ran low, visit with the health department when they came out periodically to test the water etc.

The pool held 1.2 million gallons.  It would easily lose on average around 20,000 gallons per day from evaporation, people splashing water out, cracks in the bottom of the pool, people getting out of the pool and having water drain off of them, etc.   The pool had two 4 inch faucets that were used to fill the pool; we would open up one of them partially to top off the pool after it closed for the day.  

My last summer there, they hired a company that came in before hours, put on scuba equipment, and were to "seal" the cracks in the pool with some special caulking that was supposed to cut the water losses in half, but after they were done, we still were losing around 20K per day.

Crazy, but I believe those numbers. Sorry about the job, you’re supposed to get all the girls working at the pool in the summer. 

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7 hours ago, royiv said:

I love hearing about your home. I find everything y’all did for energy efficiency and conservation so fascinating.

Thanks royiv, we are really  proud of what we did and what we’ve tried to show others though it’s hard to get people to see it. The environmental cost of construction is legit but if we could reform building standards even more there is so much we can do. Right now it’s expensive but with market adoption costs would come down. Rainwater collection, concrete walls (ICF for ours), mini split AC and ducted (like central AC) mini splits, solar, battery back up, all of it really can make a home much much less of a drain on resources but the residential construction industry is so slow to adopt. Frustrates us. You can’t see any sacrifice in design or style with our eco-friendly features but when my wife has used it for marketing the only thing that lands is the look and feel. We really need to see substantial reforms. This house will be here for 150 years easy. Maybe longer. And the resource cost to operate is negligible. 

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And as I suspected, the rainfall next week has drifted southwards. If this were to verify, the lakes would get a really nice bump going into summer. 
 

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Hate said:

And as I suspected, the rainfall next week has drifted southwards. If this were to verify, the lakes would get a really nice bump going into summer. 
 

 

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Posted
15 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Is it just from the initial fill up or ongoing refills? Never owned a pool.

I have a small pool that holds about 11k gallons. In the winter I may add 100 gallons a month. In the dead of summer I probably add about 800 gallons a month.

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Posted
21 hours ago, Hate said:

It will be interesting to see what happens when these two blobs of water meet.

 

Isn’t that how babies are made?

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Posted
19 hours ago, troph said:

Crazy, but I believe those numbers. Sorry about the job, you’re supposed to get all the girls working at the pool in the summer. 

You missed the part where he said he was ugly?

Posted
1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Pretty cool graphic.  And yeah, our casa was just inside the 65 mph+ area, which checks out.

I was right in the middle of the god damn red.  Good thing I was hunkered down in a bar.

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2 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

Any surly Lubbock peeps? I see that fucking tornado traveling down 84 so I am not sure how bad it hit Lubbock. 
 

couldn’t find the right thread sorry, 

It’s bad but not catastrophic . Gonna be lots of damage west side of town. My folks are southwest and had golf ball to tennis ball hail for almost 15 minutes straight. Lots of trees and power poles down.

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Posted
Just now, UnivTex34 said:

It’s bad but not catastrophic . Gonna be lots of damage west side of town. My folks are southwest and had golf ball to tennis ball hail for almost 15 minutes straight. Lots of trees and power poles down.

Sorry to hear that. My sister in law’s parents live there and one niece and the niece is house sitting in a house near Post (which is where it looks like that shit is headed) but the house has a basement and hoping she’s in it. Can’t get in touch with her. The niece. 

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people wonder where all the water goes first … a lot of it seeps through fissures, cracks, sinkholes, caves and other openings into the aquifer. This is very good news, I even saw Jacobs well is trying to flow again.

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Posted
23 hours ago, Orange&White said:

I have a small pool that holds about 11k gallons. In the winter I may add 100 gallons a month. In the dead of summer I probably add about 800 gallons a month.

I imagine the evaporation off of a municipal pool as a function of capacity dwarfs that of a residential pool.  They're both roughly the same depth, but the surface area of the public pool is massive.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

Not just evap, but the sheer number of people getting in and out and dragging water out with them.

yeah but it is moderated by the pee factor.

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Posted
38 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I imagine the evaporation off of a municipal pool as a function of capacity dwarfs that of a residential pool.  They're both roughly the same depth, but the surface area of the public pool is massive.

If they are the same depth, then the surface area should have the same proportion to capacity in both.

Posted
3 minutes ago, pantone159 said:

If they are the same depth, then the surface area should have the same proportion to capacity in both.

If you lose 1/4" of depth per day to evaporation in both pools, which one loses more water?

Posted
3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

If you lose 1/4" of depth per day to evaporation in both pools, which one loses more water?

As a fraction/proportion of the capacity, both would be the same.

Posted
13 hours ago, UnivTex34 said:

It’s bad but not catastrophic . Gonna be lots of damage west side of town. My folks are southwest and had golf ball to tennis ball hail for almost 15 minutes straight. Lots of trees and power poles down.

Heard there were twin twisters at one point.

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zero edge pools are much worse on water loss. a very thin/sheer surface area on the wall water trickles down to the basin. that surface area to depth is non-existent.

 

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