VpointVick wrote on 07/28/16 at 3:22pm:



Why would it have any impact on trial statuses?

ChosenOne wrote on 07/28/16 at 4:14pm:

Where the main discharge area is the trail is elevated, but there's a spot right at the entrance to Figure 8 that can get a little flooded when rains are heavy. I was thinking that this might be a particularly heavy runoff and might necessitate closing Figure 8.
:shrug:

I didn't get a chance to ride yesterday...  How was the river jam last night.

Should B Faster wrote on 07/29/16 at 1:16pm:


Well, that would be a 12 million gallon tank. 

River Jam was dead and the entrance to  the black diamond Figure Eight  trails was taped off.  Riders were forced to go left on to side hill

NC Kingsting wrote on 07/31/16 at 1:52pm:


Agreed.

The closure is probably to keep the media from showing the "amoeba water" being discharged live on the 6 o'clock news.

PS: Not sure who watches the 6 o'clock news anymore...

More than likely it's closed to prevent trail damage in the discharge area and to keep people from "exploring" the area so they're not a liability.  Much like when they're doing construction on a new zip line or Ewok village.

36 had live reports on site at 9am today.

Probably had live coverage because Newton and Company were not headed to the bathroom or something else important.

Should B Faster wrote on 07/29/16 at 1:16pm:


That is probably a big part of it, but not the only part.

Putting aside the engineering challenges for a moment, I imagine one of the major concerns is that saltwater might turn some people off to using the facilities in the first place. 


Ok, now back to the engineering challenges...

Purging the water would definitely be more of an issue if it were salt water. Also, the current pumps, piping and filtration system were probably not designed for saltwater and it may cause excessive corrosion on the infrastructure. 

I know the salt in typical saltwater pools is not noticeable, but those systems have very low salinity levels and were designed to use electrolytic plates to convert the salt into chlorine, on an as needed basis, in order to keep the water sanitized. So, that is kind of missing the point. A salt water chlorination system is really just a complicated and expensive way of adding chlorine to the water.

I am curious to know what salt concentration would be necessary to make the water uninhabitable to the amoebas, and know where that salinity level falls on a scale between "fresh water" and "ocean water". Based on some quick google searching, ocean water has anywhere from 8 to 14 times the salinity level of an average salt water pool.