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Nick Brumfield@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social |
So DC water is out, which sucks, but on a positive note I got really into the DC water supply in 2022 and this is a great time to bring out fun facts The water's out because they found turbidity at Dalecarlia Reservoir west of the city, where DC has gotten much of its water supply since the 1850s
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Tiffany (parentheses overuser)
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So what are firefighters gonna do when the neighborhood knuckleheads set the house on fire with their sad little fireworks?
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Moderately Grouchy
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Some systems RO their entire water supply but I guess that's a few decades down the road for DC
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ECinNV
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This goes back a ways, but when I lived on 17th St in Dupont I saw a tweet that continues to haunt me about DC sewer mains being made of oak trees and French Huguenots. The city’s infrastructure is really old.
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Ruth Nineke
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😳
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Matt Steinglass
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Damn thing was infested with turkey vultures when I lived there. Admittedly I am so old that this was more or less shortly after it was constructed
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Nick Brumfield
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The Reservoir was built as part of the Washington Aqueduct project headed by Montgomery Meigs (US Army Quartermaster during Civil War, architect of the Building Museum) to bring water from a dam at Great Falls to the city This project also included Union Arch Bridge over Cabin John Creek
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