That got me to thinking, my home still has the low flow shower heads distributed by the City of Greensboro in 1997 when the Dam Scam was in full force and I have plenty of water pressure for great showers. Why would residents way up high in Centerpointe townhomes have problems? What is the gravity of the situation?
And then it hit me, what if gravity is the situation?
You see. like most medium to larger sized cities, Greensboro's water pressure is provided not by pumps but by gravity from the many water towers positioned about the city. The lower the altitude of your home the higher your water pressure, the higher the altitude of your home the less water pressure. Some of you with plumbing in your basements will even notice that you have higher water pressures in the basement.
The problem for buildings like Roy Carroll's Centerpointe townhomes is that lift pumps and roof top water storage tanks must be installed to maintain adequate water pressure on the upper floors. As a matter of fact, if a building is taller than the water tower then Greensboro City water will never reach the upper floors without a lift pump and the only practical way to maintain continuous flow pressures is via the use of a water storage tank as pumps need to cycle on and off. Now I've no doubt Roy Carroll had some sort of a lift pump installed at Centerpointe but do you see anything that looks like a water tank?
No? Me neither. Click on the picture to get a closer look but you'll still not see it.
Or maybe the Mayor just gets off on wasting precious water just like he enjoys wasting taxpayer's money.
