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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Taylor View Post
    It would require that purity of the water for the boilers, anything over 2-3ppm we would dump into the domestic tanks, if it went over 9-10 it would be dumped to bilges.
    That was fine as long as the valves were changed over to the respective tanks Tony, I remember on one ship U.M.S that the upper scale alarm was being used until the vap settled down but the valves had not been switched resulting in the distilled water becoming contaminated and having to be dumped to bilge. Chief was not amused. Memory a bit rusty now but I think there were two settings on the alarm one for distilled and one for domestic?
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    #50 Some don’t even bother to disguise it , are too powerful and think they are untouchable. How wrong can they be ? Some of those are even in prison and still. Accessible to others as has been shown in recent news from the media. Cheers JS .
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    That was fine as long as the valves were changed over to the respective tanks Tony, I remember on one ship U.M.S that the upper scale alarm was being used until the vap settled down but the valves had not been switched resulting in the distilled water becoming contaminated and having to be dumped to bilge. Chief was not amused. Memory a bit rusty now but I think there were two settings on the alarm one for distilled and one for domestic?
    Ken,
    my memory is the same, but I believe you are right, two alarms but I think both were solenoid valves to dump; I think we had to open approropriate valves by hand. Most of the time I was on older "handomatic" jobs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Taylor View Post
    Ken,
    my memory is the same, but I believe you are right, two alarms but I think both were solenoid valves to dump; I think we had to open approropriate valves by hand. Most of the time I was on older "handomatic" jobs.
    Yes as I only handomatic Tony, no such luxury as automatic solenoid fail safes. Human error and big bol####ings unfortunately. Happy days
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    California is desperate for water. We've just had some huge storms with ? billions of gallons of rain fail and it all just went out to sea because there is no infrastructure to collect it

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    California is desperate for water. We've just had some huge storms with ? billions of gallons of rain fail and it all just went out to sea because there is no infrastructure to collect it

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    Welcome to the club mate, same problem here in Queensland of late. Records rainfall all out to sea as no effort is ever made to harvest it.
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    I think we should plant more trees ties the soil together reduces erosion feed oxygen to the atmosphere all we need to do is knock down all these houses and put trees in that will solve all the land based freshwater problems
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    Back in the 80's the feral gov at that time said we should plant 1 billion trees to help the atmosphere.
    We started but some how along the way things just came to a stand still.
    We still do plant but no where near as many as we should.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaun Gander View Post
    California is desperate for water. We've just had some huge storms with ? billions of gallons of rain fail and it all just went out to sea because there is no infrastructure to collect it

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    Certainly, gives some food for thought.

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