Equipment failure leads to flooding ...
Excerpt from Brisbane Times:
The Inner City Bypass was also scheduled to reopen at 5.30am this morning, after yesterday being flooded with 11 million litres of water.
Brisbane City Council confirmed a telemetric sensor system designed to detect water in the tunnel and activate a series of pumps failed, leaving the tunnel defenceless as water poured inside.
See - Equipment failure.
And yet the Bligh government tells us to trust their equipment ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 8:23 AM
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It is understood construction giant Leighton Contractors, which built the ICB, is responsible for maintaining the sensor system.
Comment is being sought from the company, whose offices are based just several hundred metres from the bypass, on Milton's Coronation Drive.
Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said the ICB's sensor system early yesterday morning indicated water removal pumps were working when they were not.
11:32 AM, November 21, 2008
So the equipment said it was working when it wasn't. Good luck if that happens with the recycled water. Computers and machinery malfunction. It's only Anna who thinks they don't.
1:07 PM, November 21, 2008
Sh** happens - But I don't want to drink it - when the technology fails - as it will - as it always does given long enough ...
2:17 PM, November 21, 2008
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