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City utility workers just uncovered wooden water mains that were installed more than 200 years ago. 
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Whether she's driving a hybrid car, installing solar panels on her roof or tearing up her beloved front lawn and replacing it with mulch, Carrie Wassenaar said, she wants to do her part for the environment.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Clearly, we don't all need computer controlled flushing our our rain barrel systems, but the idea is a sound one for larger systems (think apartments, office buildings, etc.). Again, the cost will be huge for the early adopters but pave the way for more affordable systems in the future.
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Take a flight in the Luscombe over the Oroville Spillway just prior to overtopping.
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
February 12, 2017 1:10 PM
Climate change is giving us both increased droughts and increased rainfall events in climate crazy California. Both of these situations have been long predicted, driven by the unprecedented anthropogenic greenhouse gas build-up in our atmosphere. Oroville is the tallest dam in the United States and (thanks to the intense precipitation this year) the focus of national attention and concern over infrastructure in the wake of a climate changed world. The most recent estimate pegs the repair of the eroding concrete channel at perhaps $100-200 million (and we are only in early February). See also these refs: nice overview/explanation of the current conditions at the dam: https://youtu.be/jIzldNLv8ww erosion video: https://youtu.be/d56oKCmjMHM Agency update: https://youtu.be/P87mjrohSpk Construction of the Oroville Dam: https://youtu.be/p_5udzKfLQM |
