Too Much Too Fast
Sep. 21st, 2022 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeThe rain returned overnight, lasting longer and dropping more rain than could easily be absorbed here. This causes short-term issues, although less for me than for our industrial neighbors down the street.
Just as the rain was starting to fade away, I took this photos showing where it puddles up. Some of you who follow me regularly will recall that this is where we periodically burn piles of brush. It's the local low spot.
Three hours later and most of the water had soaked in to the prehistoric lake bed on which Fernley sits.
Imerys Minerals, the diatomaceous-earth processing plant down the street (that's the big building you see in the background of many of the photos taken from our porch) has more of a problem. The area around their plan is paved, but aside from a small tank under their parking lot, there is no general storm-drain system here in Fernley, and so their parking lot floods. The dirt lot across the street from their plant forms what Lisa and I call "Lake Imerys," but there's nowhere for the water in the paved lot to go, so they have to improvise.
Imerys employs a water truck to wash down the street periodically to keep down the dust. It can also be used to move water.
When needed, they pump the water out of the sump under their parking lot into this truck, and the truck then drives down to the dirt area across the street from our house (which is mostly Union Pacific's yard) and sprays the water over the dirt areas. Eventually this soaks away. I don't know what they'd do if UP complained about them temporarily flooding part of their yard, but the areas where they spray the water are not generally used for anything.
The heavy rain caused another problem here at Fernley House about which I expect to write tomorrow.
Just as the rain was starting to fade away, I took this photos showing where it puddles up. Some of you who follow me regularly will recall that this is where we periodically burn piles of brush. It's the local low spot.
Three hours later and most of the water had soaked in to the prehistoric lake bed on which Fernley sits.
Imerys Minerals, the diatomaceous-earth processing plant down the street (that's the big building you see in the background of many of the photos taken from our porch) has more of a problem. The area around their plan is paved, but aside from a small tank under their parking lot, there is no general storm-drain system here in Fernley, and so their parking lot floods. The dirt lot across the street from their plant forms what Lisa and I call "Lake Imerys," but there's nowhere for the water in the paved lot to go, so they have to improvise.
Imerys employs a water truck to wash down the street periodically to keep down the dust. It can also be used to move water.
When needed, they pump the water out of the sump under their parking lot into this truck, and the truck then drives down to the dirt area across the street from our house (which is mostly Union Pacific's yard) and sprays the water over the dirt areas. Eventually this soaks away. I don't know what they'd do if UP complained about them temporarily flooding part of their yard, but the areas where they spray the water are not generally used for anything.
The heavy rain caused another problem here at Fernley House about which I expect to write tomorrow.
