Sunday, Sept 4. Yesterday's images are taken in late summer. The sun is still in the northern hemisphere but is moving south at an ever increasing rate. At about 9:30 a.m., the sky was cloudy but not so much that the day was darkened. The background is still green on the grass. There are some trees turning brown and others that are already losing their leaves. The leak itself appears stable. The geysering effect only goes about 6-8 inches over the surface of the sidewalk. I don't have a good way of measuring the rate at which water is being wasted. Probably over a gallon each minute. I held a 6 oz. yogurt cup into the sewer where the water is lowing. It took about 3 second to fill. That's about 120 ounces in a minute, so pretty close to one gallon. We could probably sustain a small village on this wasted water. That's about 1440 gallons per day. It's a good thing that we're water rich. The average daily water use is around 100 gallons per person per day in America. So this little leak could sustain about four households. And it just keeps on bubbling. Here are yesterday's pictures.
Here are today's morning pictures taken at 7:45 a.m.
Well, that's the daily report from 4th street springs
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