Comments on: In Depth: Century’s Water Supply To Century Prison Failed. Here’s What Happened, What Century Planned And What’s Next.

By: Rasheed Jackson

Rasheed Jackson — Thu, 14 May 2020 14:01:56 +0000

The state should step in and declare the prison in Central Water Works franchise area. It is apparent the Town of Century cannot be responsible for keeping their equipment up, running, and reliable. Every department they have is in chaos.

By: judy

judy — Wed, 13 May 2020 18:23:24 +0000

The pump was installed over 30 years ago. Know3ing the caliber of employees in the water system at Century, I would imagine little or no maintenance was done. Century is simply a disaster waiting to happen…Oh wait! Disaster has already happened. I am astonished that the town has not been shut down and incorporated into somewhere run by competent people!

By: retired

retired — Wed, 13 May 2020 14:29:49 +0000

@ DAVID

you didn’t figure wrong, you were figuring in under the table payments, kick backs, personal loans.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 13 May 2020 04:16:41 +0000

REGARDING:
“don’t quite understand the math of it taking over 15 years to pay for the $200,000″

That’s because I figured it wrong, used $1,080 rather than $10,800.
My bad. (Most embarrassing, too.) Thanks for catching what I should have.
Corrected drops it down more like 1.54 years.

David for checking one’s work

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Tue, 12 May 2020 23:36:41 +0000

@David… you make a lot of good points, but don’t quite understand the math of it taking over 15 years to pay for the $200,000 well… I mean, a 15 year loan of $200k with high interest because of bad credit would only be around $2,000 a month, wouldn’t it? 180 x $10,800 = almost $2,000,000…

By: Century

Century — Tue, 12 May 2020 22:32:31 +0000

I guess the water and gas will go up to help pay for everything. The ones has to fix the lines

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 12 May 2020 21:56:41 +0000

REGARDING:
“the well pump was some 30 years old, estimated to have pumped some two trillion gallons of water to the prison.”

Two trillion gallons? Nah.
2,000,000,000,000 gallons/30 years/365 days per year/24 hours per day/60 minutes per hour = 126,800 gallons per minute.
Ain’t no way.

Even 400 gallons per minute times 60 minutes/hour times 24 hours/day times 365 days per year times 30 years of running non stop would be 6,307,200,000 gallons, 6.3 billion gallons total.

Assuming it ran about a third of the time would drop it down closer to 2 billion gallons total.

If they are using 2 billion gallons per 30 years, that would run about 5,555 thousand gallons per month. At the rate of $2.50 per thousand gallons, that would cost Century $13,900 per month to have Central Water Works Inc. supply it.
If they were getting by with 80 gallons per minute, nonstop, they could probably do okay with less than 100 gallons/minute or 4,320 thousands of gallons at a cost of $10,800 per month.

Replacing the well for the lower cost of $200,000 would take well over 15 years to pay back at the rate of $10,800 per month. (I doubt Century will last that long.)

Simpler to just hand it over to CWWI on their way out — don’t know if CWWI would want it, though.

Just random firings of neurons.

David for numeracy

By: BRING IT ON

BRING IT ON — Tue, 12 May 2020 21:33:57 +0000

The they run Century reminds me of Prichard and all its mismanagement.

By: retired

retired — Tue, 12 May 2020 15:21:37 +0000

“Town officials and the town council were aware the pump had not been properly maintained in the past”

I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS.

By: fisherman

fisherman — Tue, 12 May 2020 12:56:01 +0000

Where’s the money coming from to pay for all this? I think it’s time for Century to move the operation to ECUA.