Flooding in Tulsa

[dennishoddy]

Who is responsible for the leak?

The producer/owner is ultimately responsible to pay for the cleanup.
The person responsible for the spill is the pumper who can’t speak English that didn’t shut the tank battery and the pump jacks that feed it down before the flooding. Water got into the instrumentation and fooled the pump that fills the tank making it think it still needed to run. We saw that pump running basically underwater for 6 days. The overflow at the top of the tank ran for who knows how long, then the 3” pvc (should have been steel) fill line between the pump and the tank broke and dumped the entire contents of the tank. About 3000 gallons.

 

[JD8]

The producer/owner is ultimately responsible to pay for the cleanup.
The person responsible for the spill is the pumper who can’t speak English that didn’t shut the tank battery and the pump jacks that feed it down before the flooding. Water got into the instrumentation and fooled the pump that fills the tank making it think it still needed to run. We saw that pump running basically underwater for 6 days. The overflow at the top of the tank ran for who knows how long, then the 3” pvc (should have been steel) fill line between the pump and the tank broke and dumped the entire contents of the tank. About 3000 gallons.

Right I get that, I should've phrased that better. I was making sure you knew who the parties involved were because someone needs to get on the horn and call their insurance carrier(s)

 

[AKguy1985]

Verdigris river has went down about five feet or so. Highway 88 is opened back up between sageeyah and oloogah.

 

[dennishoddy]

We "prepped" before the flood water came. Plenty of fresh purified drinking water on hand both in gallon jugs and bottled water. It's no different than when one goes backwoods camping and you have to take your water with you. Washing hands and dishes take on a new perspective because you have to heat water on the stove and not use the dishwasher. Everything goes back to manual.
It's not that difficult to get by without pressured water although it's inconvenient. What's inconvenient is that we can't get out, but that can easily change at our discretion. If we can't drive out overland tomorrow, the airboat community around here is only a phone call away and we have multiple offers of places to stay at friends homes.
For us, even when the water goes down weeks from now and our water well is above water again, it may be additional weeks before we get uncontaminated water because of the widespread flood waters, so we had better get used to it for awhile.
Our water table at the well house is only 15' deep normally that follows the rise and fall of the Arkansas River that is just 1/2 mile away in the same sand aquifer. The wellhouse filled up from the water table rising and not from flood waters initially. Finally with the latest release from the dam, the water went over the top of the well house. First time that has happened in 30 years of living here, but we will get by and won't go cry/whine/scream to the gubberment for help. Part of country living and we will take care of ourselves.

Well, here we are a year later and we still don't have water safe to drink from our well. Latest test after another run at sanitizing the well came back with Coliform and e-coli at levels too high to drink.
We are gone in the RV so much that we don't worry about it that much and just use bottled water for cooking and drinking at home, but we have to do something, so today started looking at water well sanitizers.
Whole house RO systems are incredibly expensive and require expensive maintenance replacing membranes, etc.
Chlorination systems seemed to be the way to go. Relatively inexpensive compared to RO, but you do have to maintain the solution of bleach/chlorine in a holding tank that can vary up or down in the PH (PH is what kills the bad stuff) depending on temperatures and age in the holding tank.
Looking further, UV seems to be the answer. Basically the UVB light screws up the DNA of the E-coli and Coliform killing it. New bulb every year that is not that expensive and your good for another year. UVB kills everything. Particle filter in front of the UV unit to make sure any particles don't
More expensive than chlorination but chlorine doesn't kill everything dangerous to humans, and the excess chlorine would kill the good bacteria in the septic system.
Looks like this is the way out of this mess.
Spent all day researching. Am I seeing anything wrong?