Brian
08-28-2008, 11:16 AM
Black Balls Stop Birds, Cancer (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/12855/Black-Balls-Stop-Birds-Cancer/)
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A big day in Silver Lake as 400,000 bird balls--black, hollow balls--went sliding down the concrete banks of Ivanhoe Reservoir. As the city overhauls its water reservoirs, today's ball drop was intended to both protect the water from the sun (the balls act as protective discs) and to keep birds from landing on the reservoir (the birds may foul the water). "It's a weird feeling for the birds," said James B. McDaniel, chief operating officer at the DWP. "If they land [on the balls], they won't stay." Sure, but there will always be those few birds who'll like the feeling, right? "I'm a bird at a water theme park! Wohoo! It's like tubing!" Yeah, McDaniel didn't seem to like that suggestion.
Oh, yeah, sure, the birds are the concern. Not cancer, nobody cares about that.
<a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromate">Silver Lake and Elysian Reservoir Incident</a> @ Wikipedia.org
On December 14, 2007, it was announced by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) that the Silver Lake and Elysian reservoirs were going to be drained due to bromate contamination. Bromate usually forms when bromide is purified using ozone, a method used at filtration plants. In the case of the Silver Lake and Elysian reservoirs, however, a combination of bromide from well water, chlorine and sunlight mixed to form bromate.
It's basically a $2M parasol. Man, I would love to play in that, if I wasn't slightly suspicious that my soft tissues would slough off.
<em>i don't know what's more entertaining, putting "slough" into a news post or creating balls.jpg</em>"
Read full story here (http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/06/balls_out_ivanh.php?o=3)
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A big day in Silver Lake as 400,000 bird balls--black, hollow balls--went sliding down the concrete banks of Ivanhoe Reservoir. As the city overhauls its water reservoirs, today's ball drop was intended to both protect the water from the sun (the balls act as protective discs) and to keep birds from landing on the reservoir (the birds may foul the water). "It's a weird feeling for the birds," said James B. McDaniel, chief operating officer at the DWP. "If they land [on the balls], they won't stay." Sure, but there will always be those few birds who'll like the feeling, right? "I'm a bird at a water theme park! Wohoo! It's like tubing!" Yeah, McDaniel didn't seem to like that suggestion.
Oh, yeah, sure, the birds are the concern. Not cancer, nobody cares about that.
<a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromate">Silver Lake and Elysian Reservoir Incident</a> @ Wikipedia.org
On December 14, 2007, it was announced by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) that the Silver Lake and Elysian reservoirs were going to be drained due to bromate contamination. Bromate usually forms when bromide is purified using ozone, a method used at filtration plants. In the case of the Silver Lake and Elysian reservoirs, however, a combination of bromide from well water, chlorine and sunlight mixed to form bromate.
It's basically a $2M parasol. Man, I would love to play in that, if I wasn't slightly suspicious that my soft tissues would slough off.
<em>i don't know what's more entertaining, putting "slough" into a news post or creating balls.jpg</em>"
Read full story here (http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/06/balls_out_ivanh.php?o=3)