Ivanhoe reservoir

This publication is us with you now will transfer to America. Place which will now talk, his story takes from 2007, when representatives of the Department for the protection of water resources in the tank called Ivanhoe, recorded transcendent bromate, the latter is a carcinogen, it was formed by the interaction of sunlight and bromide and chlorine.


As for the tank, then it was built about 100 years ago, and Ivanhoe used as a source of water, serving 600,000 residents of the city of Los Angeles.

Before the Department of Water Resources Protection became a question of how to solve this problem immediately began construction of a new reservoir, but the water is still needed and, therefore, was made quite an extraordinary measure ...

In order not to leave people without water while the water was not dangerous to health needed to limit the interaction of sunlight with water, it was used hundreds of thousands of black beads.
By the way, previously proposed Ivanhoe reservoir cover with tarpaulin and more number of interesting options, but it was all either too costly in terms of money or very long in terms of implementation. But, Brian White, who is a biologist offered the best option, namely to use the "bird balls". These balls are made of polyethylene, they are used in airports, so that in the nearby water bodies were not going to the birds. The cost of such a ball - 40 cents, it has a number of properties that repel UV rays.

As a result, about 400 000 of these balls were thrown into the tank Ivanhoe, they remain there until now, and it will continue until the construction of a new reservoir will not be fully completed. To solve this problem and, more specifically for the purchase of the above-mentioned balloons were spent 160,000 dollars, but in the end, as you see, turned out incredibly beautiful and unusual picture ...