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On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > please read my note again. > > I was NOT flaming your statements, I agree with them 100%. > I was flaming Mr. Michal Dillon's responses to your statements. > Apologies if that was unclear. > > --Zachary Look, what was wrong with Dillon's response? Are you saying you should not try to protect your POP? Lets look back at some of the things Michal said. >Take samples from the fuel tank and test them every time tanks are >filled. This is a basic thing and is easy to do and will save a lot of downtime if you catch a problem. It also helps to run your generator every week or so. >Don't site buildings where there have been floods in the past 500 years >and don't site buildings downstream from dams. If a waterproof buildingis >built in a flood area, make sure that snorkles rise above the 500 year >flood level. This is a very basic thing and all of us should try to do this. >When siting a diesel exhaust system make sure that there are no trees, >towers or similar things nearby that could fall on it. If in a hurricane >area, reinforce diesel snorkels and arrange for multiple paths to get air >in. One more good tip, it is not hard to do this, and I have watched systems go down because of this. It all could have been avoided if they would have done this. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email [email protected] Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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