[Water] [CamelotCohousing] Water pressure?

Thu Aug 14 16:54:06 EDT 2025

Amazing, I've never seen so many responses! Thank you  everyone.

The TL;DR helped.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 4:45 PM Mary Hinton <mehinton99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yochai, TL;DR for this whole thread is:
>
> Camelot and Mosaic's (Sawyer Hill EcoVillage as a whole) water system is
> award-winning (seriously, but I forget which year) but it is currently
> haunted, and a combination of manual intervention and/or water/fire service
> vendor calls is happening if not daily, at least weekly.
>
> Welcome to Camelot! (I promise this is temporary, for some value of
> "temporary"...or at the very least, it is not the expected behavior of the
> system and we are employing paid and volunteer water-ghost exorcists to try
> to return the water to normal, award-winning status)
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 4:34 PM Tara Halwes <tarahalwes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Reminder:
>> *If anyone is *currently* experiencing low or no water pressure, please
>> immediately contact the water list, cc'd.*
>>
>>
>> Other notes:
>>
>> We had the cistern filling *very* briefly today for a few minutes between
>> 2:30-3pm. We checked the fresh water level before and after just to be sure
>> we didn't affect anything. There was no significant change to the level.
>> There was an active alarm at the Mosaic Common House Shortly before that
>> which is why we deployed to the pump house to make sure the fire cistern
>> level was still good for next time, in case this alarm had caused
>> sprinklers to go off. None of that should have any effect on individuals'
>> water pressure at home.
>>
>> Otherwise, if folks having ongoing milder issues would like their
>> observations to be useful for general troubleshooting, please include date
>> and time of the observed behavior, especially when it's:
>>
>> - More than 24 hours after a known sitewide water issue
>> - That faucet has been opened more than a few times since the most recent
>> known water issue and you thought it had cleared by now
>> - You're not aware of any known water issue, but the sputter
>> self-resolved before you had time to finish the thought "maybe I should
>> call Adam"
>>
>> Again, if anyone is *currently* experiencing low or no water pressure,
>> please *immediately contact the water list, cc'd*. You can also copy all
>> of Camelot, or individuals, but the important thing is to notify the water
>> list, as they need to know immediately when there’s a potentially new
>> problem with the water outside of what’s already been reported, such as
>> the outage this past weekend.
>>
>>
>> @taraha
>> 508-361-9605
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 15:42 Gregory Stuart Pettigrew <
>> gpettigrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Same at 61 and my hot water heater is 3 months old.
>>>
>>> - Gregory Stuart Burdick Pettigrew
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 15:39 Bonnie Heile <bonnie at librarylady.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Same issues at 76 and my hot water heater is only two years old.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM Ryan Welch <welch.ryan.d at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It’s certainly not “normal” behavior, but it is common. We’ve
>>>>> (communally) had a lot of water trouble this summer.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know if it's worth reporting fluctuations anymore, but for
>>>>> true loss of pressure you should email water at sawyerhill.org ASAP.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's interesting to hear that you've lost hot water a couple of times.
>>>>> We have a traditional water heater as opposed to your solar system, but
>>>>> it's been sputtery and (even more) noisy since we lost pressure last
>>>>> weekend. It's only gone out fully once this week. We've been attributing it
>>>>> to the age of the heater, since afaik it's original to the house.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM Yochai Gal <yochaigal at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In the past week we've had a lot of water pressure issues in our
>>>>>> home. The shower will suddenly lose pressure, then return again a minute
>>>>>> later. The same thing has happened while washing dishes as well. We've also
>>>>>> lost hot water on at least two occasions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this normal behavior, or should we follow-up with someone?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
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