mem_somerville, 19 days ago to climate

Had a fabulous #FieldTrip today with Long Now Boston folks. We toured the #DeerIsland wastewater treatment plant. Yes, Long Now Boston is a nerd club.

But it gives me hope: some really smart, thoughtful, and capable people are keeping our infrastructure going and planning for #ClimateChange--no matter what the other noise around is.

Great tour, take one if you get the chance. #BostonMA

The tour starts in this lovely old brick building that retains some of the 1890s pumping machinery around. Now it's set up as a sort of classroom or visitors center. There's an MWRA podium up front and a bunch of state and national flags behind where a speaker would be, but in front of the massive iron pumping equipment. A large American flag hangs down from the high ceiling at the second floor height.
In the visitor center near the pumping equipment, there is a large topological map of Boston. It was reportedly displayed at the World's Fair in 1900. It's about 2 feet off the floor, larger than a typical kid's pool, and the class covered surface holds a real 3 dimensional rendering of Boston and the harbor.
Near the place where they disinfect the water, there's this open gravel covered area. To the right of the disinfection long cement pools there's an odd object that looks like an early space capsule shape, but it's made in cement. It is one of the diffusers that matches the ones sitting 9 miles out in the harbor where the cleaned water comes out from the tunnels. It has a series of small sort of portholes around the cement where the water would come out if it was at the end of a tunnel. This one was defective though, and so it just sits up here for discussion purposes. Off to the background there is some greenery on a nearby hill with a water tank. That water is the stuff that come from the MWRA clean water reservoir system to serve the island.

fletch1, 28 days ago to random

More of the fire performers, this time jump roping with a fire whip. Special thanks to Hunt’s Photo Video, Sony (even though I don’t use a Sony Camera), and Cirque Delight for doing this.
#BostonMA #NightPhotography #FireJuggling #UniversalHub