Everyone's a Photographer
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I get an email from an engineer about bird poop.
Well, who can define a present, really? Different things to different folks. Someone forwarded an email to me from a water engineer: This made me laugh! She is an entertaining, if uninformed, writer. Bromate is a known carcinogen at the concentrations found in Silverlake Reservoir. LADWP needs to prevent its formation by reducing sunlight on the water. And LADWP cannot take the reservoirs out of service without risking water reliability. Many pipes are made out of HDPE (as are the bird balls) and it is approved by the National Science Foundation for use in drinking water conveyance. I’d rather have HDPE in my water than bird poop. What LADWP really…
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You know it’s spring when…Trader Joe’s daffodils are $1!
Or, $1.29. Still a fave. The LA Times had a nice article on wildflowers, and how if you turn your car in the right direction, you, too, might find yourself falling in love, in the canyons, in the deserts, in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. (Oh, how L. Frank Baum would have loved this.) Well, I haven’t gone to any of these places yet, though I’d like to. Maybe I’m in the wrong kind of crowds. But I did get up from my chair, walked down the block, and saw a few I liked.
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Silver Lake, Interrupted. (*Updated)
Downtown, with a puddle to mark where Silver Lake should be. Interrupted, or DEAD? As of tonight, the north side of Silver Lake, the Ivanhoe Reservoir, is also gone. The remains as seen from my window. *Updated. I had to get permission from Medical News Today to quote this: Levels of bromate, a carcinogen, have become so high in the Silver Lake and Elysian reservoirs that authorities are having to drain over 600 millions of gallons of water. Bromate levels have risen due to combination high sunlight exposure, naturally present groundwater bromate, and chlorine. The six-hundred people who get their water supply from these two reservoirs are getting their water…
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Silver Lake, drained of life. (updated)
The other night I was running around Silver Lake and it looked lower, but nowhere near the bottom. The Times said the lake is 45 feet deep. Then last night I saw the bottom! I was shocked! No way the lake is that deep – it looks around 12 feet deep. (Probably the LADWP made up that depth to sound like they were doing more work.) Today I went over there to take some pictures, and many people stopped to chat with me, as people do when they watch something awful. Silver Lake was built in 1907, and is actually 2 separate reservoirs, divided by a concrete barrier and a…