Sunday, September 18, 2011

Business: Scuba divers find cracks responsible for water loss

From KMVT.com: Scuba divers find cracks responsible for water loss
TWIN FALLS, IDAHO (KMVT-TV) Back in July Kvmt news first told you that the city of Twin Falls is scuba diving our local waters to check for cracks.

Tonight at the city council meeting.. The city, along with Brockway Engineering, explained how things are looking.

They have been investigating the upper and lower Blue Lakes Pond.
The divers put in dye and monitored it for 48 hours.

They also ran all of their tests through a computer model to see just how big these cracks responsible for the water loss could be.

And divers say they've discovered quite a few new cracks.

Mike Trabert from the City of Twin Falls says "I think the biggest surprise we had on all of the test was finding the fissure, previously all the teat that were done it was never discovered since 71. So we did a very thorough one this time and that crack was about 55 feet long. So that was a significant find that helped further the project along."

Up next for the project will be a few more test in the lakes followed by approval of some type of plan to fix the problem.

But as of now the remedy is not yet been decided.

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