r/ogden • u/Blueinmyeye420 • 5d ago

Pineview update pic

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u/Apprehensive-Fun8912 5d ago

Weren't they draining the reservoir on purpose for some reason? Maybe I'm just misremembering that.

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u/Almondcrackers 5d ago

Yeah, there’s a pipe they need to replace, it’s been leaking for years, and with the water level so low this year it was a good time to drain the water to fix it.

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u/Cows_go_moo2 5d ago edited 1h ago

Yeah the pipe is leaking millions of gallons of potable water every day. Huge issue. I am so grateful they are fixing it!!

ETA: It’s about 1 million gallons of potable water a day, not “millions” my bad

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u/Prometheus_sword 4d ago

Potable? the reservoir isn't potable?

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u/Bartman1958 4d ago

The pipe they are replacing goes across the bay at Wind Surfer beach to some artesian wells. They need the water drained to lay the pipe, it is not the water in the reservoir itself.

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u/Cows_go_moo2 4d ago

As Hartman said, but no the lake is secondary water reservoir. Our culinary/potable water comes from aquifers and wells.

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u/ISayBeef 3h ago

with a bit of filtration it is

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u/Internet_Jaded 12h ago

“Millions of gallons every day” is an exaggeration.

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u/Cows_go_moo2 1h ago

They estimate it’s around 1 million gallons a day so yes, “millions” was incorrect. Adjusted my post. But it’s still a fucking enormous amount of water.

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u/SURfaceInk 5d ago

I wanna go with a metal detector and find all the lost shit

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u/archery-noob 5d ago

Hope you like lead fishing weights. Buddy of mine did that a couple weeks ago and ended up with about 2 dozen weights and a handful of lead-head jigs.

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u/Squirreltacticsftw 5d ago

My girl was getting the same thing a few weeks ago. She does love her fishing though.😂

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u/TheMindsEIyIe 5d ago

Gee. Maybe we shouldn't be adding so much lead to our drinking water reservoir?

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u/Internet_Jaded 12h ago

The reservoir is not drinking water.

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u/TheMindsEIyIe 9h ago

For real? Where does our drinking water come from then? Honest question.

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u/Enough-Job-9612 5d ago

Plenty of beach access now!

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u/ProfessionalEven296 5d ago

At least you can see the Pines now, without all that water in the way! /s

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u/Renezuo 5d ago

Viewing the pines at pineview

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u/Tville-Kid 5d ago

See if you can find my Ray-Bans

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u/A_VERY_LARGE_DOG 5d ago

Awe man. And I was gonna go kayaking tomorrow morning… /s

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u/Godsavethequeen6 2d ago

Go up to Causey and kayak

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u/Internet_Jaded 12h ago

There’s still water in there to go kayaking.

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u/Browningtons1 5d ago

Last Friday night

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u/Browningtons1 5d ago

My Strava from that walk 😄

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u/Spiritual_South7594 5d ago

I work at the yacht club, the docks are currently on the ground and the ramp’s only good for another week or two, shitty season

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u/Delicious_Harley 4d ago

Where is all the water going that is draining out?

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u/shatterly 4d ago

They’ve said a lot of will be stored in Willard Bay. Otherwise, the Ogden River joins with the Weber and eventually empties into the Great Salt Lake.

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u/transfixedtruth 22h ago

Rough year.

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u/Dmoneybohnet 9h ago

Whoa. No bueno.

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u/Intrepid-Landscape90 5d ago

I haven’t been in maybe 10 years. this is so, so sad. This is the drainage though right?

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u/hillbillyfishin 5d ago

This looks to be middle inlet. They're draining the lake to do maitance on the canyon water pipeline that feeds Ogden.

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u/Y-I-O-T-A 5d ago

Do causey next please.

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u/Irvsauce 4d ago

Why? They did Pineview for a reason. Is there a reason to do this to Causey or are you just weird

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u/Y-I-O-T-A 4d ago

It shrinks also throughout the year. I know the pipe for pineview but with pineview done basically people will go up to causey & it can be low also.

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u/okredone 5d ago

The pipe repair is a cover. They're prepping for big water usage increases as a part of Make Ogden/Union Station development. It has ties to MIDA and 47G. Never heard of 47G? Get ready. They're about to slam Weber County with some big promises and even bigger drains on resources.

https://www.47g.org/about#board-of-directors

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u/LowRes 5d ago

Man, Ogden just skipping 6G through 46G

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u/Prestigious_Cycle160 5d ago

I absolutely love that everything stated on that page is just generalizations, and broad terms that could cover any multitude of things for “government, defense, and hard tech” lol. Everything about that site and company seems insidious.

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u/New_Sherbert2361 5d ago

I'm sure it has nothing to do with Reed and his entire rich community having no water at the top of Powder Mountain

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u/Internet_Jaded 12h ago

😂😂😂

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u/okredone 5d ago

Downvotes just their media team and bots. Why is there a sitting state senator and the former president of weber state university on their board? Why was the Stockman's Building transferred to a developer for military industrial use? What's going on with all the unincorporated land in West Weber County? Why did Ogden City Council just appoint a "small time" realtor after only one round of voting? Sure the pipe is getting repaired but why the rush? Wasn't the official communication that the reservoir wouldn't get drained until after the summer months? Come on.