The Broadsider had an interesting article on the latest Community Pool fiasco this week -- particularly when compared to the Emptyprize's puff piece on a Heritage Museum exhibit!
The story pointed out that the Superintendent thought the “stop of the leak is promising..." Later in the story, however, it was also mentioned that there was no longer any water in the shallow end of the pool. My degree isn't in Hydrodynamics, or even engineering,-- but I am pretty sure that once the water is gone, the leak will usually go away!
I didn't see the School Committee Meeting -- but I hope somebody else had trouble keeping a straight face after being told the leak stopped --- as soon as the water was gone.
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This is exactly why we need STEM. Without trained engineers everybody is left to guess whether the pool is really leaking or perhaps the building has just tilted and all the water run to the deep end?
Top 10 reasons the Sandwich Pool is dry.
1. Evaporation
2. Thirsty rodents
3. Community School is bottling and selling the water to generate much needed income.
4. The pool is tilting and the water has run to the deep end.
5. Too many swimmers swallow
6. Too few swimmers urinate
7. A Moses wanna be has parted the waters
8. Ellie took her pool back
9. Unpaid Community School vendors have repossessed the water.
10. There actually is a leak
Are you kidding me? According to the April 5th article in the Enterprise "It was during the outage, when the pool’s automatic water feeding system was shut down, that the daily drop in the water level was first detected."
Well, if no water is going in the pool, of course the water level is going to go down each day due to evaporation.
I only hope we have not wasted money on an engineer for nothing.
Sorry? Is the last post really suggesting that 80,000 gallons of water have evaporated?
I believe they are. We don't need no stinkin' Engineering reports -- The Good Lord is just sucking 2" of water out of the Pool each day.
@1:34 AM (really? go to bed instead of posting this crap, for Chrissake):
I regret to inform you that evaporation is not your ticket aboard the ever-popular "everyone in charge is stupid!" bandwagon, as tempting as it must be to climb on in any way you can devise from your armchair.
The short answer: No. You don't lose that much to evaporation, particularly in an indoor, humid setting.
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