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A combination of aqueducts, reservoirs, and tunnels supply fresh water to New York City. With three major water systems (Croton, Catskill, and Delaware) stretching up to 125 miles (201 km) away from the city, its water supply system is one of the most extensive municipal water systems in the world.
New York's water treatment process is simpler than most other American cities. This largely reflects how well protected its watersheds are. The city has sought to restrict development surrounding them. One of its largest watershed protection programs is the Land Acquisition Program, under which the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has purchased or protected, through conservation easement, over 130,000 acres (53,000 ha) since 1997. With all the care given, the city's water supply system is partially exempted from filtration requirements by both the federal and the state government, saving more than "$10 billion to build a massive filtration plant, and at least another $100 million annually on its operation". Moreover, the special topography the waterways run on allows 95% of the system's water to be supplied by gravity. The percentage of pumped water does change when the water level in the reservoirs is out of the normal range.
Have narrowed down an intermittent problem thats occurred for months.
When a shower is taken for say 10 mins, everything is fine. Wait 2 minutes & have another shower and things are USUALLY fine. However, if you wait say 15/20 minutes after the first person & then try getting hot water, the DHW...
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Hi Everyone
Can anyone advise me please? I don't appear to have any water coming in through the main supply. No leaks extnerally it just doesnt seen to be getting any further than the stop tap under the sink. Prior to this there was a problem in the loft with the hot water tank. The air valve...
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Hi all,
I'll be brief but try to include as much info as poss.
Problem 1 - Last Winter I noticed that the top half or 2/3 of all the upstairs radiators were cold - I can take the bleed valves off, go and make a casserole and when I come back still no air escaping!
So I was thinking of flushing...
Jimbobc
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Hi
I've got an oil fired 308k rayburn, not gravity fed- the water circulates by pump. Once it's going it's fine, but it takes ages (a good few hours a day over 4 or 5 days kneeling in the loft) to bleed the system. The problem seems to be that the pump pulls air into the system at the venting...
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can anyone help a damsel in distress requarding no hot water coming out my kitchen tap, i have a combi boiler:(
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hi
my hot waters cylinder (pressurized) has started making a noise when my washing machine is spinning,it sounds like the cylinder is contracting and then expanding.as if someone is pushing it in then letting go.I have reasonable plumbing knowledge but not on pressurized cylinders,,what i...
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My Girlfriend has a field which she keeps horses on, which currently as far as we know has no water running to it.
It's a private field but has a road running through the middle of it, which many years ago was a public road, but is now closed off and is oly used for access to the land.
I was...
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Hi
Having a bit of a nightmare getting a radiator hot. It is on a closed circuit , its the last one on the circuit and the routing to this radiator doesn't particulary help !
I am convinced that there is air stuck in the pipe.
Anybody got any good tips on how to release it ?? :confused...
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Morning guys and girls,
I have a very noisy expansion vessel. I have tried to re-pressurise it with a foot pump but still no joy - any idea's what I could do to sort this? It is an Eco 7
Cheers
any takers on this peps?
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Hi all, first poster here. Here is my problem.
I recently fitted a new bath and have since developed a water leak. It comes down the wall from the bathroom, and may be following the pipework. It only occurs when the taps are open, and does not occur at all times. It can be days before it starts...
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When ask by the customer if i would like tea or coffee i always reply "it depends on the biscuits" 9/10 i get " would you like something to eat" no wonder i am getting over weight.:D
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a friend has asked me to look at her hot tap in the bathroom basin, apparently when ity is turned on nothing comes out , then if its left on for a half an hour or so it starts to work. she said some little black rubbery thing came out of it once.
i am thinking dodgy tap?
its a basin tap ...
that bloke.
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HI
I used a very small gas torch to soldering 2 of 22mm copper water pipes on copper tee (22mmX22mmX15mm) successfuly few days ago.
Now I need soldering a copper drain cock on 15mm end of the tee. For some reason I unable finish the job. I think is because the gas torch is too small.
So...
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Hey everyone, I have to re plumb a chalet in the pyreneese at 1700 meters altitude, so freezing is a problem. The mains riser pipe enters from the cellar (not insulated) floor. Is there a shut off valve that I can fit that will allow me to drain down the system at the same point so there is no...
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Hi all
am a bit mystified by a background water pressure sound in my mains pipes. A callout service suggested I had a leak under my kitchen floor so I had the kitchen ripped out, tiles up, hole dug in the concrete, but nothing found. As there are no leaks anywhere else (the two cold tanks in the...
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hi the above boiler is rising to 3 bar then discharging through prv, suspected expansion vessel so i depressed schrader valve on the vessel to see if the diaphragm had split but no water came out, so does this mean it just needs re charging or can the diaphragm stretch causing the same fault...
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ive got a 3/4 yr old mira go shower in my house. weve just had a full house rewire but my mate (he's a a spark) tested all the wires and he says its defo the shower, i do agree with him, before the rewire the shower tripped the very old fusebox about 2 yrs ago, but we assumed the fuse amp size...
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Hi there
Can anyone advise.
My boiler is only 2 years old and my hoy water supply is not constant.
with the hot tap on full my boiler is at full fire for 30 seconds then goes off for 10 seconds and so on. Central hesting side seams fine.
Cheers Davlin.
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I had a leak in my hot water cylinder, i called the insurance, they said id have to replace the cylinder and they would do the rest. I replaced the cylinder and stopped the leak but there was no hot water, the radiators worked but no hot water!
I brought a pump thinking the reason the hot water...
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