Candler Water Plant Don't Work Good
Decatur Metro | August 14, 2008Yeah so remember the time when DeKalb residents were told that we needed to boil all of our water and lots of people didn’t shower or brush their teeth for two straight days? Remember how Wheatley said he used astronaut shampoo to wash his wavy, red locks? That was awesome…
So in regards to that whole fiasco, I’ve got some good and bad news…
The good news is that something like that shouldn’t happen again anytime soon for the same reason.
The bad news is that the county is paying upwards of $180,000 to RENT a diesel backup system, on top of the $165 mil we’ve already shelled out, to cover for the current fickle, sometimes defunct “high-tech” facility the next time it decides to power-off during a light shower. Ah diesel…they sure don’t make ‘em like they used to, do they?
Oh also…if you’re like me, and are curious to know why the system failed, it had something to do with a “defect in the computer logic control”. Now are we clear? Good. Will they be fixing this defect? Who knows!
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Maybe that could Vernon’s new job after he stops being emperor, ooops, I mean CEO of Dekalb. The handyman that goes around and fixes everything he and cronies screwed up while they were in office.
Coma, Coma, Coma, Hey, Hey, Hey, Yeah I’m your handyman.
Probably get the rights form BMI for song.
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Can they run those things on my NASA shampoo? I’ve got like, buckets of the stuff.
Seriously, and please help me out here, as I know next to nothing about diesel generators. Say the system shuts down again: How many gallons of diesel does it take to operate the generator until engineers can get the system functioning? (Last time it was two days, correct?) What’s the average price of a gallon of diesel right now? $4.80? I imagine this being a very large generator, and not the kind you find rumbling at the county fair.
Don’t worry about the water- a few years back DeKalb county actually paid to bottle its water- to show how high a quality it is (was)….maybe there are still some cases of that around that we could drink…..gee, do you think that was a waste of resources as well…… Just think, if Vernon had been left in the running for senate, we could have brought his policies nationwide. Ooooooooh- it makes me shudder at the thought.
Tybee…
LOL!
Diesel generators are quite common as backup power sources. I’m looking out the window at two of them, neatly disguised by oddly shaped sound-insulated steel sheds, each the size of a short shipping container.
But these are permanent, designed to back up a datacenter with thousands of servers and disk arrays.
I can’t imagine that the ongoing cost of renting a temporary generator for a few months would cost less than hiring a contractor to work with vendors to fix the busted code. And I’m pretty sure the cost of 24 hours of diesel fuel is dwarfed by the rental/maintenance cost of just having the thing on site.
Was there an expected completion date for the software fix? If this were a commercial enterprise, you’d better believe there would be