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For those of you who don't like to click on links:

OK, here's the secret:

The ordinary-looking house on Wade Ave actually disguises a pump station for the city of Raleigh public utilities.

A pump station is basically a supercharger - Water comes in, the station speeds it up, and pushes the water uphill. Without these things, the city's water would run backwards. It would never get to your sink.


1 posted on 01/21/2014 1:31:40 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Slings and Arrows

ping


2 posted on 01/21/2014 1:33:50 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

I think there’s one like it in Wichita.


3 posted on 01/21/2014 1:34:37 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: EveningStar

“Without these things, the city’s water would run backwards. It would never get to your sink.”

It is real good they have them! Thanks fellows who invented this stuff!

Maybe we need “men’s history” and we can focus on all men have done to improve our daily lives.

And did they do it for themselves? No, we all know that, men would live in squalor happily (ok, not all, but many, even my sainted father liked to sit around in his underwear).

They did if for THE CHILDREN and THE WOMEN.

So thanks guys, cause it’s better now that it was in the caves!


4 posted on 01/21/2014 1:37:16 PM PST by jocon307
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To: EveningStar

I had a Hot Wheels Supercharger. The car went in slowly and shot out the other side.

So probably something like that.


5 posted on 01/21/2014 1:42:37 PM PST by Larry Lucido (If you like your all your base, you can keep your all your base. - CATS)
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To: EveningStar

Actually, what the pump station does is lift the water to static storage in a tank on a hill somewhere, from which it runs by gravity to your house.


6 posted on 01/21/2014 1:45:28 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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