Comments on: Century Looks For Mystery Wastewater

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:55:53 +0000

REGARDING:
“, believe that tens of thousands of gallons of water is being treated that leaks in to the system ”

I would imagine checking power demand at each lift station should narrow down the source of influx, especially if the high demand is a recent thing. Say it took ten thousand kilowatt hours at one station two years ago but is taking twenty thousand kilowatt hours this year, it is doing twice what it was. Unless there are that much more users, most likely the extra work is from pumping inflitrating water.

Failing that, they should have some idea how much energy is needed to pump average demand based on number of homes or even metered water consumption. Any station pumping more than that is a likely problem area.

And then there’s the fact that people tend to use water less at certain times of the day or night whereas leaks continue. Just see where light usage times still see plenty of demand, that is likely a problem area.

David thinking

By: just peachy

just peachy — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:23:23 +0000

Our Federal Government does not have any interest in saving small towns, small schools, small businesses, or small anything. The federal gov’t desire is to have everyone move into the Big cities. They can keep track of us better there. They can box us up on top of each other in high rise complexes. Send our kids to huge schools where no one knows their name. Take away our need for automobiles, and transport us by bus or rail. Take a good look around. Do they save small businesses? NO. They save only those “too big to fail.” Don’t you see? “Small” is disappearing.

By: Just Me

Just Me — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:36:27 +0000

7000 $ to prepare contract documents to put qualified contrators on call? Really? What about the City Employees you already have? Im sure they would enjoy some overtime pay. Seems like Mr. Long and Fabre Engineering are sucking the city into a bunch of unneeded stuff lately. And Im still waitng to see the reason behind the Pressure Boosting Station on Stateline Road. Why boost the pressure when you have to decrease it further down? Just another money hole from the engineering firm.

By: cygie

cygie — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:26:53 +0000

It would seem that Century, like many small towns, is trying to improve itself, but faces an aging infrastructure that prohibits growth in commercial sector. Could this wastewater issue be the REAL reason behind the catfish plant changing it’s tune? Or so many other business ventures drying up?

I would think the government with it’s “shovel ready” stimulus projects it boasted of, could help Century and other towns out with these issues. Otherwise, Century will always be stuck in the current rut.