Post by CampKohler on Jul 19, 2013 15:21:43 GMT -8
My photo of the day.
I was walking up to the library today to see a scene that made me run back to the car and get a camera. I thought that they were given a kind of dialysis to insulating oil in the big green SMUD transformer that serves the library. But it turns out they are pumping mud; they are merely potholing.
The library is on the boundary between two water districts, one of which thinks (evidently) that they are getting gypped, i.e. the water flows more so from one system into the other than the other way. To settle this, the interconnect point is having a meter added to measure the flow. This requires power, so they will run a conduit from the meter (off-frame to the right) to the transformer. However, since there is a PG&E gas line running beneath the transformer, they have to pothole, or dig by hand, an inspection hole to find out where things are. That's what they are doing in the photo; the small hose is a water line used to dissolve the dirt and the big one carries it away into the tank on the trailer.
Now you may have heard of PG&E's troubles in San Bruno, where their gas line blew up a bunch of houses and killed people. So now we have A GAS PIPE RUNNING UNDER A POWER TRANSFORMER! Can you believe it?
I was walking up to the library today to see a scene that made me run back to the car and get a camera. I thought that they were given a kind of dialysis to insulating oil in the big green SMUD transformer that serves the library. But it turns out they are pumping mud; they are merely potholing.
The library is on the boundary between two water districts, one of which thinks (evidently) that they are getting gypped, i.e. the water flows more so from one system into the other than the other way. To settle this, the interconnect point is having a meter added to measure the flow. This requires power, so they will run a conduit from the meter (off-frame to the right) to the transformer. However, since there is a PG&E gas line running beneath the transformer, they have to pothole, or dig by hand, an inspection hole to find out where things are. That's what they are doing in the photo; the small hose is a water line used to dissolve the dirt and the big one carries it away into the tank on the trailer.
Now you may have heard of PG&E's troubles in San Bruno, where their gas line blew up a bunch of houses and killed people. So now we have A GAS PIPE RUNNING UNDER A POWER TRANSFORMER! Can you believe it?
EverGreen? notice something? 
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