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  1. Meantime
    Don't forget that carbon monoxide results from the incomplete burning of the fuel. So a properly functioning heater will give off very little CO, with more likely when it is starting up and at run down time, or when it goes faulty, which could happen at anytime!
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    Apologies you want this one, which is good for about 7 tests per can.
  3. Meantime
    The alternative is to buy a can of Arctic Hayes Sleep Safe Smoke alarm tester, available on Amazon for around £9 for a can which is useful for about 40 tests. You spray it for around 2 to 5 secs in front of the CO detector.
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    No CO is a good thing, however Kidde who are a popular make of CO alarms have the following to say about CO. When Will Carbon Monoxide Levels Set Off Your Alarm? Carbon Monoxide Level Alarm Response Time 40 PPM 10 hours 50 PPM 8 hours 70 PPM 1 to 4 hours 150 PPM 10 to 50 minutes 400 PPM 4 to 15 minutes Carbon Monoxide Levels and Their Symptoms If your carbon monoxide alarm sounds, or you suspect you are experiencing symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning, you should immediately leave your home and call 9-1-1. Here are some of the symptoms you can expect from carbon monoxide exposure. 50 PPM None for healthy adults. According to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), this is the maximum allowable concentration for continuous exposure for healthy adults in any eight-hour period. 200 PPM Slight headache, fatigue, dizziness, and nausea after two to three hours. 400 PPM Frontal headaches with one to two hours. Life threatening after three hours. 800 PPM Dizziness, nausea, and convulsions within 45 minutes. Unconsciousness within two hours. Death within two to three hours. 1,600 PPM Headache, dizziness and nausea within 20 minutes. Death within one hour. For more information about your specific alarm, refer to your user’s manual.
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    Another resounding success for the Broads Authorities policy of charging for moorings. Clearly the takings at the pub improved so much they decided they could retire early!! I do wonder though is it closed permanently or closed until another tenant takes it on? I suspect the latter.
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    It looks to be about 6ft currently. The forecast for the nest week has little rain currently so with any luck a chance for the system to drain and levels to drop a bit.
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    Not pulling any punches is he!
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    I still don't see how that would work. You wouldn't be able to shut the gates again until slack water, which would mean salt water incursion to Oulton Broad. Remember salt water is heavier than fresh so at low water at the lock you would have fresh water pouring out through the lock, but the current would prevent you closing the gates. At slack water you would be able to close the gates, but slack water occurs once the incoming tide has risen high enough to hold back and stop the outgoing fresh. For a period before that you would have fresh water flowing out over the top of incoming salt water!
  9. Meantime
    Many people have commented about the strange phenomenon at Yarmouth and Reedham where you can see the tide going out, yet the water level is starting to rise. This is a graphic demonstration of the incoming tide starting to dam the outgoing rain water until it reaches a level where it starts to force the water back upstream. Also this is one of the reasons why slack water is approx 90 mins after low water at Yarmouth yacht station. Low water is when the tide is about to start coming in and gives the best clearance under Vauxhall bridge, but you will still be passing the bridge on an ebb. Slack water gives the least current, (incoming has matched the outgoing flow) but is often 12 inches higher than lower water.
  10. Meantime
    The article that Vaughan refers to can be found here There's an interesting picture where you can swipe left to right to see the before and after of an aerial shot of the bridge site.
  11. Meantime
    If only it were that simple, but you overlook the fact that these rivers also drain valley's. This means that on any given tide there will normally be more water going out, than that which came in on the last tide. The water pouring over the weirs at New Mills and Horstead Mill and various other run off places from the land has to go out through Yarmouth eventually. In an ideal world you want to restrict the flow of water on an incoming tide and then ease the restriction on an outgoing tide to allow the previous tide and rain water out. The Dutch do exactly that with Amsterdam. They drain the city, whilst holding back the tides and also allowing enough water in to flush the canals at times of low rain fall. They do it at multiple points around the city.
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    The Colchester Inns group have all the above and failed in that location!
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    Designed to equalise the pressure in the lock yes, not to drain a whole valley. I dread to think what the flow would be if they opened them on all four gates now, and still a drop in the ocean compared to opening all four gates fully, but with often a metre plus drop from one side to thr other, that would be some flow through the lock.
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    Unlike normal locks Oulton Broad has double lock gates to allow for the fact that depending on tide Oulton Broad could be higher or lower than lake Lothing. On a canal water is always higher one side of the lock, hence single gates. To let water out through Oulton Broad lock would mean opening four gates and tremendous pressure on the last set as they are opened. Probably more than they would stand now.
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    Would think there is too much chance of damage to the gates and lock now and who is responsible for the lock now? Oh yes thevBA!
  16. Meantime
    Still very high at Oulton Broad this morning.
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    With fluvial flooding, you need to make the most of the outgoing ebb to clear the flood waters from the land, rain etc, as soon as it can, before it gets locked by the incoming tide. Anything that slows down the ebb, reduced width, lack of dredging will slow the capacity of water drained from the system before the next incoming tide. In the meantime what has been drained is being increasingly replaced by land run off upriver. The Thames barrier has been raised more times to ease fluvial flooding than it has to prevent flooding from the incoming tide. In times of very heavy rainfall upriver, the barrier gets raised just after low water to stop the incoming tide, and keep space upriver of the barrier for run off from the land to fill. Effectively a storage pool until the tide turns and the barrier is lower to release the water.
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    I realise that, but they both exit through Breydon and out through Yarmouth. All three rivers have worse flooding this year than I can remember in 22 years of visiting the Broads. Not just worse peak flooding, but slow in draining away and hanging around for far longer.
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    As bad as this year? The Landlord of The Coldham Hall Tavern will tell you its getting a lot worse.
  20. Meantime
    Who says it isn't?
  21. Meantime
    According to Google maps the hours are 11am - 11pm Fri and Sat and 11am to 8pm Sun, but that all depends on when it was last updated. The Facebook page hasn't been updated since April 2022 so presumably they don't do social media! which could also explain the website being down. I think The Granary is also on very similar reduced opening hours, does that mean that there is even less trade for The Maltsters and they've decided to close for the Winter?
  22. Meantime
    The frustrations of trying to deal with the BA planning are very evident in this extract from an email from the architect to the planning department. The key point to this project is to re-instate the quayheading to a height to match that of Ferry Marina and make the exit and entry to boats moored alongside the area of The Ferry Inn much safer. This has to be the most important consideration for all concerned, in order to reduce the number of incidents of people falling from boats moored along this reduced height area and the resulting injuries incurred. It would be unforgivable if a more serious incident was to arise over such a minor point, that of trying to determine which parts of the 200m run of quayheading need to be raised and to what level. The quayheading identified to The Ferry Inn needs to be re-instated to a height level with neighbouring properties to improve safety. Simple. Let's do it. What is more important than people's safety?
  23. Meantime
    That nice new higher piece of quay heading you are moored against originally received objection from the Blessed Authority!! They started at the opposite end to where you are moored, raising and renewing the quay heading. They had only managed a short section before they were told to stop. That short section remained for pretty much one season before they have been allowed to continue along to where you are moored. Quite simply if the pub hadn't managed to overcome the objections of the BA, you'd have had a much less safe and secure mooring last night. The new higher quat heading is no higher than the quay heading further along at the Ferry Marina hire yard!!
  24. Meantime
    Because in previous years they have made a profit, and as a community pub, they haven't paid it out in dividends, but kept it as reserves. It will be those reserves which will see them through the bad years, such as the last one. However they have limited time to turn it around before the reserves run out and then it will be game over.
  25. Meantime
    It's not looking good for tonight either!
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