Lack of rain=no snow????

[trimreaper]

Willl the lack of rain this summer have an impact on snowmaking? I drove past Blue and the stream they use for snowmaking looks very low. I wouldnt be surprised if DEP puts a water usage limit on them.

[Melissa]

Willl the lack of rain this summer have an impact on snowmaking? I drove past Blue and the stream they use for snowmaking looks very low. I wouldnt be surprised if DEP puts a water usage limit on them.

 

No drought right now:

 

http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/watershedmgm...35&q=523309

[phillycore]

lush and moist sounds good to me

[A_B]

that how i like my women

[Justo8484]

Willl the lack of rain this summer have an impact on snowmaking? I drove past Blue and the stream they use for snowmaking looks very low. I wouldnt be surprised if DEP puts a water usage limit on them.

 

i dont think blue pulls from a stream for snowmaking, they have a few ponds that are probably spring-fed.

[gerhard]

"that how i like my women"

 

i knew that was comin sooner or later

Edited November 4, 2007 by gerhard

[snorovr]

Willl the lack of rain this summer have an impact on snowmaking? I drove past Blue and the stream they use for snowmaking looks very low. I wouldnt be surprised if DEP puts a water usage limit on them.

 

That stream has zero to do with snowmaking at Blue. In fact, they had to do several things to make sure that there is as little impact as possible on that stream from the operation in order to appease the proper authorities and environmentalists...

[bud]

Blue fills it's ponds from that stream.

[OutCold]

The ponds are filled with groundwater and runoff from snow melt and other sheet flow from parking lots, etc. If they drew water from that stream for snowmaking, it would be dry downstream from the intake just about as soon as they turn the pumps on.

Edited November 6, 2007 by OutCold

[bud]

If that is true then why do they have a big pumping facility at the bottom?

[Schif]

If that is true then why do they have a big pumping facility at the bottom?

The pumps send pond water up the mountain and into all the guns.

[bud]

2 different sets of pumps, one to fill the pond located accross the street from the valley lodge, the other up in the pump house near school hill.

[Schif]

As a Civil Engineer I find it beyond stupid to have a pump used to fill a pond. Rain/gravity does a great job of that and costs a lot less to operate than a big pump.

 

I'm not knocking you or anything bud, I'm not denying the existence of those pumps, but I think you're just a little mistaken about their purpose.

[stever2003]

As an Electrical Engineer, I find that what we engineers feel is stupid or not often does not affect what an owner desires to do. If they REALLY wish to use pumps to fill their pond from a stream, I`m sure they will find a way to do that.

 

I also endorse their extensive use of those pumps because their consumption of power shall help keep me employed

[kragan]

As a Network Engineer .... oh, F* it.

 

I think the least of our worries are the water/pond/stream. More than that, we need cold CONSISTENT temps this year!

[AtomicSkier]

And as a MechE, you're all freakin idiots!

[method9455]

And as a MechE, you're all freakin idiots!

 

Ha that just made my day. Do all MechE's have pride in it? I thought it was just the guys at my school being overly nerdy about it. ... Alright back to studying for my Dynamics exam at 2, great.