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Prichard
[ prich-erd ]
noun
- a city in S Alabama.
Example Sentences
Ian Prichard, the deputy general manager at Calleguas Municipal Water District, said that Pleasant Valley Mutual’s system has redundancy — or a built-in work around — so another pump could refill their tanks, albeit slower, after the one pump station burned.
Prichard also explained that these hillside water tanks are only designed to support a community’s daily use as well as a large structure fire — one that might take three or four firetrucks.
“Even with electricity... it puts a lot of stress on that system; you draw down that tank faster than it can get refilled,” Prichard said.
Prichard did, however, acknowledge that it is best practices for water providers to top off their water tanks, stage backup generators and prepare crews for contingency work during a red flag event or possible fire weather.
“If we had had that capacity, we could certainly have treated thousands more patients… as well as being more resilient going into the second wave of the pandemic and into winter more generally,” Ms Prichard said.
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