Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York’s Capital District. Roughly 135 miles (217 km) north of the City of New York, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 10 miles (16 km) south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. The population of the city was 97,856 at the time of the 2010 census.
Good evening! Kind of a cloudy and damp evening. ☁️
But for the most part, the rain has let up and it’s just an occasional drizzle with clouds.
Cloudy and 60 degrees on CDTA Delmar Express Bus heading out to Delmar. ☁️ Calm wind. The dew point is 57 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 8 am.
I knew it would be a risk to take the express bus, especially without the driver that goes past my apartment, but I am hopeful that I will remain dry 🚶♀️walking home. It really is kind of a drag taking the local, even if it gets me home just about the same time as taking the express and walking the rest of the way home.
No big plans for the evening, 👩💻 although I’m planning to learn a bit more of the various matplotlib API and some of the image processing APIs avaliable in Python. I just want to be able to do more graphs and the alike.
Sitting atop a storage building in the North End neighborhood of Albany, New York, is a four-ton, 28-foot tall steel and fiberglass statue of Nipper, the canine mascot of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), the now-defunct consumer electronics behemoth.
According to the Albany Institute of History and Art, Nipper came to be perched atop the crenellated parapet in 1958 following renovation of the dilapidated concrete warehouse for use by RTA Corporation, an appliance distributor specializing in products by RCA. The statue was made in Chicago, shipped in five sections by rail, and attached to a metal frame on the roof with the aid of a 10-story crane.
The purpose of the bypass pumping system is to keep the pump station operational with river water flows to the Central Air Conditioning Plant for the Empire State Plaza. The intake cannot be shut down for any significant length of time and therefore the bypass pumping system is essential for maintaining flows to the plant while the intake is being modified. The bypass intake and pumping system was approved as part of the original permit plans (Dwg. PC-005). However, discussions with the contractor likely to be selected for the project suggested that the pumping system as laid out would not provide the intended flows and would have to be reconfigured with the pumps located on barges in the river. HDR engineers revisited the design and determined that the original design would not work. The total maximum daily flow the bypass pumping system must be capable of pumping is 60 million gallons a day (60 MGD) which equates to 42,000 gallons per minute (gpm). The bypass pumping system consists of centrifugal self-priming end suction pumps. Self-priming pumps are required as the elevation of the pump is above the elevation of the water level. Therefore, the pump is required to evacuate all air from the piping system in order to flood the pump suction with water. These pumps utilize the pressure of the atmosphere to lift the water higher than sea level and into the pump itself. The pumps, when using atmospheric pressure in assisting with pushing water into the pump itself, are capable of “lifting” the water a maximum of 25 feet above sea level. Therefore, the maximum height the pump can be located above the water level is 25 feet. The height will be even less when taking into consideration pipe friction losses, leakage, wave movement above the pipe, etc. As can be seen from the surveyed elevations of the project site, the only feasible on land location (within OGS property limits) for the pumps is at elevation 23.25.’ The pump centerline is 3 feet above this elevation. The high water level in the river is elevation 5.70. The low water elevation is -5.10. Therefore, the total lift that the pump must overcome at low tide is (23.25’ 3’-(-5.1’) = 31.35’, which is more than any pump is capable of lifting water. Additional information on the pumping system is provided in memo located in Attachment B.
