Tuesday 11 April 2017

Sunbeam Creek Still Icy


    In the early spring when the snow starts melting, a lot of tree needles, and other bits of small organic matter begins to come down Sunbeam Creek, where we get out water.  This causes the screen on our intake to clog up and so my neighbor and I have to go up to Sunbeam Falls and replace the screen.  
    We did that yesterday and I was surprised to see how much ice was still covering the falls.  If you look carefully toward the middle of the falls, you can see our water-collecting culvert with a nice drape of water flowing over the top.  To give you some sense of size that culvert is just over 4 foot wide (1.2m) across. 
    We had to break off some of the ice that was hovering over our culvert in order to drain it and replace the screen.  Since our culvert is sitting in the middle of a tall waterfall it is a treacherous place to work, and the ice made it even more so.  Fortunately, we got the job done without incident and our water is flowing again.
    I think it is interesting that whenever we have to stop our waterline flow to work on our intake, that when we start it up again we have “Sparkling” water, full of tiny bubbles, coming out of our taps for a while.  I think it is because so much air gets into the water as it tumbles down the falls. 
    You can see the sparkling water on my old blog:
    

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