Wednesday, June 15, 2011

And not a rifle amongst them. Then again carrying a rifle at a nuclear power facility would not be such a great idea.
I figure similar excitement would ensure up here if an oriole or a blue jay pitched up on Nain hill.

According to the shipping update the Norther Ranger may attempt to get into Nain today. Looking out the harbor a doubt that, still lots of ice, then again depends on the new operators I guess.
We were aboard one year when she went through some growler ice outside, bumping them out of the way, but that is nothing like we have in the harbor.

Seems the plans to divert water from another source into the towns system are on hold at the moment. It has cleared up for sure, still I feel a report from the Department of health or some such authority would not go astray.

Water update: CBC Lab Morning interviewed the mayor on the latest.

We still have a state of emergency, boil water order still in effect. Council going to do some more flushing of water lines today to see if this helps the chlorination unit work correctly.

Asked why this situation happened, the mayor promptly lumped all the blame on the engineers and the construction company [without mentioning their names or mentioning engineers or construction companies].

“We pay good money for these civil works and companies are going to have to pay more attention to how they go about things” or words to that effect.

It will be Friday before the next update by the sound of it, then it MAY be known if the town has to fly or boat in more bottled water.

Incidentally, the reverse osmosis system that Northern had in place gave up the ghost some 3-4 weeks ago, about the time the water started to go dirty. It is still out of operation.

Something like that would help with cost and litter potential of bottles. But then someone recently mentioned to me that I expect too much. Jokingly or half jokingly or what I don’t know.


2 comments:

Shammickite said...

reminds me of the movie Rare Bird that was filmed in St Johns not too long ago, a friend of mine was in one of the crowd scenes filmed at Cape Spear.

Table Mountains said...

A northern bird flies south. Here we are seeing southern birds come north. Hummingbirds are now common in my community as well as others that seem to be appearing more often.