This is from AquaDude at Withey’s Water Treatment: Power out — checking your UV when Hydro is restored. Three pointers to follow when your power comes back on: Be sure to check to make sure your UV is indeed powered up and not in alarm (beeping or wailing). It may need to be reset (by [...]
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Last week the Gabriola Sounder reported that the Islands Trust recommends a ban on commercial extraction of groundwater. Now the Dailiy News has a story on this, too: Islands Trust wants province to look at groundwater regulations. I thought you might like to see Sheila Malcolmson’s letter to the province, which seems to be the [...]
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If you’re concerned about Gabriola’s water supply, you might want to read what the RDN says about Gabriola in their newly-released Watershed Snapshot Report 2010. The Gabriola analysis section of that report states:
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Driving along North Road, you’ve spotted that green box on one side of the Tunnel. But what on earth is it? I stopped to find out. A sign on the box explains that it’s Well 197 in the Ground Water Observation Well Network. It adds that This instrument has been installed to collect hydrologic data [...]
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Soaps, toothpastes, clothing, bedding, and more, all with special germ-killing properties. Oh Gabriola, where will it end, and how is it affecting us and our island? It’s the sort of thing that sounds good at first, I suppose: kills germs, keep you safer! But, as the Globe and Mail noted, the Canadian Medical Association called [...]
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I came across several of these five-gallon water bottles next to a Gabriola forest stream. A moment later a man appeared, and proceeded to fill his water bottles right from the stream. Because it’s good Gabriola water, right? And he didn’t see the point in paying for drinking water at Village Foods when the stream [...]
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From The Guardian: The ‘waterless’ washing machine that could save you money. Dry cleaning is set to become a domestic activity with a washing machine that uses 90% less water than a normal laundry cycle and could be available by the end of 2011. The device, developed by Leeds-based Xeros Ltd, replaces water with tiny [...]
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