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City of Sandusky to replace water pipe in Cedar Point parking lot, following two more main breaks since this past Thanksgiving:

 

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/Government/2016/02/16/Sandusky-fixing-Cedar-Point-pipe-problem.html

 

For the newbies, there was another thread on this incident here: http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php/topic/29429-cedar-point/ (discussion starts near the bottom of the first page)

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Welcome to old water mains. Once it breaks once, it's on going.

The main that feeds our area is VERY old and it breaks all the time. You can bet that after it breaks, give it a few days and it breaks again.

Welcome to the world of pressure.

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Curious if the new water towers capacity is great enough (when completed) to keep the park up and running in the event this happens again...

Probably just enough in case of fire, I read somewhere that water towers are for keeping pressure?

This type of tower is for pressure and storage. Note you do not see them in urban areas becuase it would require to many of them so pumps and reservoirs are used. (I took my Cub Scout Den on a water treatment plant tour a few years ago)

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A. You call Mason urban? We must have different definitions of urban. Unless the letter carrier walks his route it is definitely not urban. :)

B. You won't find one within the city limits of St. Louis, and I can't think of one until you get into the far, far burbs of St. Louis County, like Eureka.

You will find 3 narrow towers that were decommissioned way back around 1912. They are kept for their architectural significance such as the the on N. grand that is the worlds largest free standing Corinthian Tower.

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And a lot are.

There are huge ones atop nearly every older apartment and commercial building in Atlanta, many if not most still in use.

This is also the case in DC, Philly and NYC.

But, I suppose, compared to St. Louis, these are not urban areas.

This led me to Google where I learned that---in NYC at least---a lot of those water towers are made of wood!  Learning the darnest things, indeed I am.  Thanks Terp!  ;-)

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Well I stand corrected then. Some urban areas still use water towers. But is sure sounds like what you are describing is storage tanks on top of buildings for use in a particular building, not municipal water towers used to store water for distribution.

Interesting because I have never seen a visible water tower on a non-industrial building in St. Louis, Denver, Omaha, or Columbus. Granted none of those are east coast or southern cities.

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That doesn't surprise me. :)

Back to CP: while I was there last week they hoisted a giant curtain around the new tower during the day but took it down at night. Made it almost look like a cooling tower for nuclear power plant, kind of creepy. It didn't look like they had done any painting. Is it just to shield whatever work is being done for the GP?

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That doesn't surprise me. :)

Back to CP: while I was there last week they hoisted a giant curtain around the new tower during the day but took it down at night. Made it almost look like a cooling tower for nuclear power plant, kind of creepy. It didn't look like they had done any painting. Is it just to shield whatever work is being done for the GP?

 

Yep, I was there Monday/Tuesday.  The up/down of the curtains occurred both days.  From the boardwalk you could see the workers painting behind the curtains.  

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I'm still baffled why CP hotels would rely solely on Sandusky treated water for firefigting use when you have Lake Erie right there.

 

Fire departments often use ponds/ lakes etc. when lacking a water source.

 

Because the concern is not the fire department having a source of water, the concern is with the sprinkler system not working.

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