Good luck with that.

With the Nechako running at 350 cubic metres per second, that's 5 million gallons per minute.

You're going to add 500 gallons per minute (one one-hundredth of one percent) of tepid water, and it's going to make a difference?

Especially not when it takes 144 BTU to melt a single pound of ice.

Doesn't anybody at the City (or the province) own a calculator?

Oh Mr. Moses... your numbers are interesting... except that the Nechako only runs at 343.26 cms at the Foothills bridge... checked it with a float and fishline at lunch time... (almost got run over by the City snowplow)... and your 144BTU to melt a pound of ice is only good at sea level... takes a lot more heat at our higher elevation... 148.37 is more accurate.

I suspect a more efficient solution would be to get everyone to stand on the Yellowhead bridge and pee simultaineously into the Fraser... both on the upstream and downstream sides of the bridge... should be room for all of us... how about noon this Sunday ??

:-)

Goodtimes !!

Good times indeed, except it hurts like hell to see significant tax dollars spent on a project that has almost no chance of success.

Who's calling the plays at the City and what technical advice are they receiving?

$500 grand for a kooky koncept like the 'Hot Water Plan' makes my blood boil.

RIVER RUNS AT 5 MILLION GPM AND WE ADD 5OO GPM......THATS A DILUTION RATE OF 1 TO 10,000. I AM NOT SMART ENOUGH TO CALCULATE
THE TEMP CHANGE BUT IT MUST BE .00000SOMETHING DEGREES "C". WOW WHAT A CHANGE THAT SHOULD MAKE....IDIOTS.

I think what amuses ME the most is listening to the fisheries biologist who concerned about the welfare of the fish, I heard him say, in an anterview, that introducing "hot water" to the river could be harmful to the fish! HUH? As well as the very excellent comments above about the dilution ratio and the delta T, it's a big goldarn river for gosh sake! I would bet money that if the fish were to find the water a tad warm (which they won't) they would swim away to where they feel more comfortable! Geez, they do that all summer long, don't they? When the water is warm in the shallows, lake or river, they head down deep, where it is cooler! DUH.
And I am on the side of the nay sayers, 500 gpm is like a fart in a hurricane, you ain't agonna smell it two feet away.
metalman.

I had to laugh at the city folks with their big water pipe on Cameron street bridge today dumping water into the river from the pumping station and they worked at it all day and they couldn't even keep a hole in the ice thawed out big enough to fit their pipe into lol. What a stupid idea....

Well we will get the pleasure of telling these dolts "we told you so" after it doesnt work. All we can do is sit back and watch the shit show.

Blow it up .The amount of money spent ,could of restocked the river in fish by now!Pay the enviroment people off to!

Drinking $500,000 dollars worth of beer and pissing in the river would work better....and give the unemployed people in town something to do..

Tell alcan to cease all flow into the river for say a couple hours.....that dries it up and all the ice settles to the bottom.

Then have alcan blow a hole in the dam causing a wall of water to come rushing down so huge it just washes all the resting ice away in 2 seconds.

Yes, I agree my paln has flaws, and is completely stupid....but the people at the city of PG offices started it, so i figured WTF maybe i can get this done and then be a shoe in for mayor come the next election.
Then i can get paid for bad ideas, and take lots of free trips overseas to.