Montage Mountain Resorts is suing Pennsylvania American Water for $34 million in damages claiming water-filtration pellets clog the snowmaking system and hamper the ski resort’s ability to blanket the slopes...
Scott wrote:
Wow, that’s interesting. I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a filtration system at the beginning of the snowmaking system to block contaminants from entering. While that filter might clog frequently, it would at least protect other equipment.
When I was trying to learn more about the different snow making systems, there was a clear difference between those that build in the filtering and those that don't. Needless to say the systems with good filtering cost more.
Ratnik sells add-on filters for the snowmaking hoses. It was founded in 1965 and is based in central NY.
http://ratnik.com/product/stainless-water-filters/
Oh . . . the issue was a spill into the reservoir from which Montage draws the water for snowmaking.
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Large quantities of small pellets spilled from utility’s water-treatment plant upstream at Lake Scranton into Stafford Meadow Brook and the PA-5 Reservoir, which is used by the resort for snowmaking, according to a lawsuit filed Dec. 28 in Lackawanna County Court.
The resort pumps water from the reservoir and pipes it up the mountain to feed a snowmaking system with over 302 snowguns.
The pellets, about the size of split peas, gum up a pumphouse and the entire snowmaking system.
The water company knew about the spill of the pellets but did not notify the resort, and the problem became evident in mid-2019 in pump problems and during the winter ski season of 2019-20, the lawsuit says.
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