Posted on 08/12/2015 2:27:10 PM PDT by Minutemen
Desperate to preserve its water supply amid a four-year drought, Los Angeles is turning a reservoir into a ball pit. It may not seem like the most scientific approach, but officials say the “shade balls” will protect valuable H2O in the City of Angels.
Bringing new meaning to the term “throwing shade,” authorities claim the black, plastic balls will preserve the Van Normal reservoir’s water supply in several ways. (excerpt)see all at link:https://www.rt.com/usa/312219-shade-balls-california-drought/
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The name of the reservoir should be “Van Norman” reservoir.
The larger added surface area of the balls will make evaporation worse........
So that’s where General Schwarzkopf’s clerk ended up.
As the story goes, Stormin’ Norman after reading documents needing his signature, jumped up and got in the clerks face shouting, “I’m not Normal!”
Turns out the clerk had misspelled the General’s first name in the signature block.
I am not positively certain, but I believe the “libs” got the color of the balls “wrong” I would have gone with white.
That’s racist!!!
That's VAN NORMAN (idiots) "
No that's Ab Normal
Well it’s the holding basin at the terminus of the first Los Angeles Aqueduct so I don’t know that it’s being stocked. Simple surface movement should add oxygen to the water.
Follow the money.
This is what happens when liberals use their “brains.”
That’s because liberals have no balls!!!!
It’s a government program... who needs to think things through?
If it fails just throw more money at it
LA has done this before:
Ivanhoe Reservoir Covered With 400,000 Black Plastic Balls
In 2007, the Department of Water Protection in Los Angeles detected high levels of bromate, a carcinogen that forms when bromide and chlorine react with sunlight, in Los Angeles’s Ivanhoe Reservoir. Bromide is naturally present in groundwater and chlorine is used to kill bacteria, but sunlight is the final ingredient in the potentially harmful mix. The 102-year-old facility serves about 600,000 customers downtown and in South Los Angeles. When the Department of Water Protection realized the problem, they began construction of a new underground reservoir in Griffith Park, but while the new facility was being built they had to determine a way to keep the sunlight out of the water.
The possibility of tarps and metal coverings were explored but they were either too expensive or will take too long to install. So one of the DWP’s biologists, Brian White, suggested “bird balls,” commonly used by airports to prevent birds from congregating in wet areas alongside runways. The balls are made of polyethylene and cost only 40 cents each. The coating contains carbon and black is the only color strong enough to deflect ultraviolet rays.
400,000 balls were dropped into the reservoir on June 2008, where they will remain for the next four to five years until the new underground reservoir is completed.
We use milk jogs made of white PVC to store rainwater outside. They start getting brittle, breaking down, and biodegrading in about a year.
As well, the black balls minimize shininess/bright reflective surface of water, which is what attracts birds and wildlife.
Waste of money and time....preventing evaporation? Who thought up this silliness? Evaporation is the first stage of the rain cycle. California should not be messing with Mother Nature but this is not the first time!
If California would send the illegals home to Mexico, the state could lessen the demand for a lot more than 300 million gallons of water per WEEK! If each illegal, (the estimate is close to 10 million but we could halve that to 5 million) uses 30 gallons per week, the use is 150,000,000. So, let’s say TWO WEEKS!
By darkening the reflective surface of the water they will minimize "visits" by birds and animals. It's the bright reflective surface that attracts them.
I never have had Shade Balls and I hope I never get it again!
If they roll. I don't know this for a fact, but it appears the balls are weighted so they are lighter on top and heavier on the bottom, thus they won't readily roll.
Black... No kidding, the first thing I thought of is the heat absorption of black.
But they meant well and that’s what counts.
Deadly last stage of Beer Nuts.
#blackballsmatter
Any guesses on how long before they have to ‘discard’ the water in the reservoir before it is ‘unsafe’ for human consumption?
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