Norcal Spotted and BS Thread

RC Willey on sale for $429

https://www.rcwilley.com/Appliances...ch-Beer-Keg-Cooler---Stainless-Steel-View.jsp

What I have.

 

Wow

https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/ar...new-problem-for-santa-rosa-contaminated-water

First, plastic water system components in homes – faucets, water lines in walls and crawl spaces – burned and melted in the fire. In some cases, water meters and supply lines between the curb and the house – generally installed at shallow depth – also melted.

Second, the enormous water demand created in battling the fire led to negative pressure in some parts of the water system. This allowed chemicals from the melted plastics to be drawn into the water system and spread.

A third factor, Horenstein said, is that even though plastic water mains were not directly damaged by the fire, the chemicals drawn into the system may have attached themselves to the walls of these larger pipes.

This created a lasting contamination problem that continues today and is the main reason the city must consider total replacement of the water system in this area. Flushing or scrubbing the mains doesn’t eliminate the pollution, because it becomes embedded in the pipe.

“Those benzene, toluene, xylene molecules do not penetrate copper,” said Andrew Whelton, an assistant professor of engineering at Purdue University who studies plastic pipes. “Plastic is more like a sponge. It has pore spaces, the atoms are not as densely compacted. The chemicals generally like to be in the plastic and not so much in the water.”

 

Copper for the win.

 

We were just talking about this at work. FUBAR

 

Are you drinking already? Not even noon, dude. Not cool.

*edit: mfer said cooper originally and edited it.

 

I'm back on HHWP work. SJPL assessment stuff.

 

Ah, infrastructure. It’s sad that it requires a lethal disaster to thrust these issues to the forefront.

 

ductile iron pipe

 

Yeah...

Can anyone say Oroville? I think you can.

If you really want to freak, take the river tour in Chicago and look up under the steel bridges.

 

Appurtenances? or the valves?

I'm also involved in SJPL stuff.

 

Damn. That's going to be a fun peplacement.

 

Interdasting.

The whole shebang. "Life extension" (management plan)

 

So if I'm catching rain water in five gallon buckets that are slightly deformed from fire is it possible that I could potentially intake benzine as well if I drank that water?
Some of those buckets are HDPE based. Now I'm kinda thinking back.

 

Right on. Didn’t know that study was actually going to happen.

 

If you happen upon one with more than one tap it's nice to have. I used to keep beer in one and Kombucha in the other. Kombucha on tap is nice to have around.

 

Born and raised there..walk over the bridges and look thru the rust spots for real fun.

 

Hey, I have more than one of these so don't kill each other trying to make an offer.

 

Two ways to ride IYKWIM

 

That's part of the allure of a riding mower.

 

Well nobody said it was going to happen. We're helping develop guidance for it.