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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: maceng2 who wrote (63625)5/7/2005 11:32:09 PM
From: Slagle  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
PearlyButton, Re: Greenspan. LMAO...Greenspan is the dude running the booster pump. You know, the English housing boom might be the root cause of your plumbing troubles, there is such a relationship here. Most municipal water systems were originally built as gravity systems with an elevated storage tank on a hill or on a steel tower serving the town below. Then as the cities, either out of greed to acquire new customers or pushed along by the developers who get themselves elected to city government positions begin to run water lines out in to the rural areas around the cities to supply all the new McMansions. Soon you begin to have low water pressure problems on the rural lines. A few years back a solution to this problem was developed and without having to run new and larger rural mains; variable speed booster pumps that force more water down the line. The pumps are inverter driven and the control systems attempts to keep the pressure constant but in practice you sometimes get super high pressures downline. The result is a lot of busted pipe or fittings in or under peoples houses, especially the pvc plastic stuff which doesn't like the water hammer. And of course lots of leaky faucets like the problem you have.

Now everybody has to install a water pressure regulator valve to protect the plumbing. You get lots of municipal main line blow outs too. They will do anything to keep the housing bubble going.
slagle
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