Water Volume...By the Numbers

I was playing around with some numbers earlier today and came up with the following possibly interesting facts:

All of the main waterline from the Treatment Building up to the reservoir and down to the beginning of Pineridge Rd is 6" plastic pipe. Each 100 meters of this pipe will hold about 1766 litres. That's 1.77 m3 (cubic meters). For the metrically challenged, that's about 467 US gallons or 388 Imperial gallons. I haven't actually measured the approximate length of pipe our system would have, but it could be around 1 km (1000 meters)?

When we're filling the reservoir, we're pumping about 20 US gallons per minute. That's 1200 US gallons per hour or about 4500 litres (4.5 m3) per hour. That means it takes about 20 minutes to fill each 100 meters of our 6 inch plastic mainline.

More Treatment for the Treatment Building

With fall pretty much here, it's time to get a few projects tidied up in readiness for winter. One such is the outside of the Treatment Building.

There were two issues with this facility: the most important was the state of the roof. This is another case of 20-year shingles still on a building after about 30 years. That and the buildup of moss and the rubbing of tree branches. The other was just the look of the siding.

So, in addition to some recent work inside to repair crumbling drywall, the Treatment Building now has a new coat of stain. The new roof will go on next spring. For the winter, a few temporary shingles have patched the holes that were there under the moss. Next season we will finish all the repairs that this building badly needs.