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There's a terrific piece in the Seattle P-I today that took us down a 700-foot shaft into New York's Rondout-West Branch water tunnel. "For this, the city has enlisted six deep-sea divers from Seattle-based Global Diving and Salvage who are living for more than a month in a sealed 24-foot tubular pressurized tank complete with showers, a television and a Nerf basketball hoop, breathing air that is 97.5 percent helium and 2.5 percent oxygen, so their high-pitched squeals are all but unintelligible." The P-I picked the story up from the NYT, and it's written in that weirdly compelling style where extreme underwater plumbing somehow speaks to the universal human condition. It's a five-year, $240 million project, which should put our friend who just got a $5300 estimate to dig out his backyard sewer drain into a more philosophical frame of mind.
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The Pig's Eye may have taken you there today, but its a NYTimes article from earlier in the week. Interesting stuff, but this is a manifestation of local media (MSM) being weak and gutted.
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Yeah, I skimmed over the byline at first but then went back to it because I couldn't believe the P-I had the staff handy to put a piece like this together. Turns out they didn't.
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I'd really appreciate a similar article about the details of getting water to us Seattle folk. I know it comes from up in the Cascades, two different sites depending where you live. But after that I know little. I have heard, that like NYC, we actually get some water delivered through century-old hollow logs. Yuk.
As god is my witness, one summer I will take the Cedar River Watershed tour and blog about it. It takes 2.5 hours, costs $10, and shows you where 70 percent of Seattle's drinking water comes from.