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City of Nelson Emergency Water Intake Potential Disaster

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                                                City Emergency Water Intake from the Lake What would Interior Health have to say about this?  There is a serious potential that raw sewage could contaminate zone 4 of the city water system. The city installed an emergency water intake at the end of the airport strip. The story told,  there would be a portable emergency water treatment plant in time of need to make the water potable. Questions  where is the portable treatment plant, does the city have a guarantee it will always be available? The other story, the city fire insurer wasn't satisfied their water storage was capable of handling a major fire event at the worst times such as summer minimum reservoir draw downs.  It was installed to meet this insurance requirement. Which story is true? The engineering as an emergency water supply showed ...

BUILDING STEP CODE 5 NET ZERO

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  Unaffordable building now, just wait. If the city had told the truth about the Community Solar Garden, and its still not too late to do that. It would have stopped all the waste of public and  private dollars in local solar power systems. The city community solar garden is a fraud. When you understand where this can go regarding this article, you will understand solar will not be part of everyone's rush to 100% renewables around here. Step Code 5 Net Zero using grid tied PV solar panels is stealing money from people who don't know, subsidized by everyone else.  Beware of solar salesmen. BUILDING STEP CODE 5 NET ZERO   its coming   If a building makes as much power as it consumes its considered Net Zero.  How will a building make power?  The suggestion is solar panels. All excess solar power is earned in summer and Nelson hydro allows full retail credit even though they don't need the power. In winter when solar doesn't work all these wo...