re: flow arrows, they literally make these vaned grates with arrows to indicate proper orientation BECAUSE IT MATTERS curved vane/tilted bar grates are typically quite hydraulically efficient compared to conventional grates, but placing them in the wrong direction TANK their efficiency

still haunted by this jank curb-grate inlet I saw on the way to a bar in Uptown... not only did they orient the Type-L grates so that the vanes are perpendicular to the gutter flow direction, half of them are pointing AWAY from the inlet (see the flow arrows on the grates) 😭

happy #maneymonday!!! 🎉 I hope everyone else is looking forward to the short work week! I can't fathom what we're meant to be celebrating, but I'll take a three-day weekend! 🎆 stay safe and hydrated out there!!!

been cooking up some buuuuullshit lately #whoelsecanrelate

it's #maneymonday!!! 🐾 I hope everyone else who went to TFS this weekend was also up to their elbows in good times! it's always nice getting to see so many new and familiar faces 🥰

sewer blossoms in peak bloom this morning

Does YOUR regional sewer district publish Medium essays?

ever wonder what the underside of an inlet cover looks like? here's one I saw on a walk near White Rock Lake! this side gives a better view of the hairpin spring locking mechanism used to try and keep the covers in place. the top side looks a bit like this third pic from a similar model in Denton!

woman be shopping 🙄

pride maney!

boyfriends are good for many things, but one of them is listening to be yap about water ALL the time!!! :3 (base by @houndtombs.bsky.social and colored by my bf @13problemcat.bsky.social!)

happy first #maneymonday of pride🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I'm realizing that I've been on HRT for nearly three and a half years now, what a ride! in some ways so much has changed, and in others, things are delightfully the same. here's to more good changes this month and beyond! 💕 (AMAZING icon by @sakkiye.bsky.social)

it's #maneymonday, and good GRIEF it's been busy lately! that being said, here's the post I promised about the Sweetwater Wetlands from our visit to Arizona 👀

my horoscope says i’m gonna pee today, guaranteed hit

Commission for @maroonmeows.bsky.social ! 🚧🏗🚧 #🌲

I almost missed this week's #maneymonday!!! anyways, one of the many benefits of being a maned wolf is that your long legs make it easy to get a great view of ponds! while I prefer the stormwater variety, here's a constructed wetland we recently visited over in Arizona (lengthier post to come)!

since everyone's talking abt the crazy storms in DFW yesterday, here's a pic I got of the anvil as we were flying back in from Arizona! (fortunately we landed just before all the crazy lightning across the metroplex started 😮‍💨)

i am not a fan of acronyms in our public comms, but after our trustees passed a resolution yesterday to advertise our Westerly Trickling Filters project i am willing to make an exception.

sewer skills are always in demand! there's nothing worse than a sewer system that doesn't run seamlessly I could write a whole thread on why aging sewers are bad news!

happy #maneymonday!!! I hope you had a good easter weekend and found lots of eggs (or chew toys) this weekend :3

spotted LOTS of little culverts around White Rock Lake yesterday! notably, here's a some concrete pipe culverts with stone masonry headwalls and two thin-edge projecting corrugated metal pipe culverts (the first with helical corrugations and the second with annular, interestingly!)

hot find outside of the Sheraton at TFF: another Shaw Foundry backwards S Dallas manhole cover on a curb inlet! it also had a "no dumping" marker that I hadn't seen before, so that's neat too!

happy #maneymonday to the maned wolves, this specific set of ribbed vane grates, and you, of course! :3c

oh! (hold on just a sec-), sorry! you've caught me on the telegphone! anyways, I hope you have a good #maneymonday!!! :3

saw some interesting things while on a walk the other day! for starters, all of the retaining walls along this creek look like they were made of lots of cemented concrete cores? and while the concrete headwall isn't exactly unusual, I've never seen an "organic" end section like this tree before 😭

it's #maneymonday !!!!!!! 🌾strutting through the week with some new maney art from @sakkiye.bsky.social🌾

graugh hectic #maneymonday,, , but got to spend the evening celebrating a friend's bday and got ramen for dinner, so it's all good! :p

I was on a walk yesterday and saw these funky special design curb-type inlets used to drain a (3"?) V-ditch along a short retaining wall Usually you'd see ditches with culverts beneath roads/driveways, but I figure with the natural gas line and homes they didn't have the room for full ditches 🧐

I see a funky inlet (half-recessed curb inlet????) and stop to take a picture it's YET ANOTHER SHAW FOUNDRY CITY OF DALLAƧ COVER

Warm up sketch before working on commissions. Some ocs :°)

what better way to enjoy #maneymonday than to finally receive a new maney plushie from @lairbrew.bsky.social in the mail!!! they've even got cloven paw pads like maneys do irl !!!!

CAD designers could never 😔

I would LOVE to know how many other animals they have stuck behind a computer doing CAD work 💀 these paws were NOT made for plan sheets

happy #maneymonday!!! it's important to do your morning stretches before clocking in at the long week factory, best of luck out there! <3

Thinking of the high water sign from ANEX, before and after the weekend. Unfortunately I don't think it'll be warming any motorists of potential flood-prone roadways with all those stickers (including one from me!!) 😭

today's silly find: a radial cover grate!! it's a fun little crossover between a manhole cover and a grate inlet!

spotted some silly cast iron inlets while walking around the con! here's some vaned grate inlets in a sag (low-point) of a parking lot, which are angled in both directions to better capture flow from the entire area another common sight in OK are cast iron combo inlets (curb hood + vane grates)!

spotted some silly cast iron inlets while walking around the con! here's some vaned grate inlets in a sag (low-point) of a parking lot, which are angled in both directions to better capture flow from the entire area another common sight in OK are cast iron combo inlets (curb hood + vane grates)!

Moving to Somerville EXPEDITIOUSLY

A guide to the things I like most drawing animal people. 🙏

kept up at night thinking about this monstrosity of an inlet I saw a few months ago,,, a double 10' curbline inlet connected to a junction box-inlet combo with Y-inlets on either side fully made my bf pull over on the way to lunch to take pictures lol

The new Black Mirror episode was pretty weird

bad news, Mike saw his shadow this morning. Six more miles of sewers.

UPDATE: I FOUND A SECOND CITY OF DALLAƧ INLET COVER !!!!! This one was actually a lot closer to where I usually walk so I'm surprised I've never noticed it before 😭

it's another chilly maney monday, and it's con week!!! hope everyone's staying warm and looking forward to seeing any silly stormwater pics I get in Oklahoma this weekend >:3

Sewerdle has been added to my Home Screen.

I forgot to add, I wound up writing my environmental regulations/policy term paper on the RRCCP! I figured I'd drop a link for anyone interested in reading more abt it: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

now that things have slowed down and the weather's finally thawing out, I'm hoping to start my stormwater posting again >:3 here's an 8-foot curb inlet I see all the time, featuring way more ice than usual