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Shedding Light on a Dark Situation
Author(s) -
Carpenter Carol
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8701.2003.tb01734.x
Subject(s) - blackout , guard (computer science) , water tanks , national guard , environmental science , power (physics) , engineering , environmental engineering , computer science , electric power system , political science , physics , public administration , quantum mechanics , programming language
This article describes the experience that the Cleveland Division of Water (CWD) had with the massive electrical power outage that occurred on August 14, 2003. Not only Cleveland, but all of northern Ohio, several other northeastern states, and parts of Canada were affected. CWD lost 50% of its total 135 mil gal of water stored in an underground reservoir, 777 mil gal of water stored in 13 storage tanks (four ground‐level steel tanks and nine elevated towers), and much of the water stored in four other ground‐level and elevated tanks that hold 33.5 mil gal each. The article tells how staff coped with the massive problem, how extra staff was deployed including the National Guard, and how CWD communicated with customers during the power blackout.