imo it would make sense to change the water recycling plants over to eco-water recycling plants. I think the new plants would reuse a lot of the existing infrastructure like tanks and piping, so even if the game mechanics force you to completely demolish and replace the plants the 'real' build would be a much smaller upgrade to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Also the city doesn't really need it, but some water storage might be a nice addition to the water treatment campus.
Finally a topic I'm familiar with! And these pumps are closure than you think! Milwaukee, and many lakeshore municipalities, get their water from pumps directly into Lake Michigan. These pumps, contrary to the game, run underground and then underwater into the deeper parts of the lake to limit ingestion of contaminated water. Similarly to the groundwater water sources you briefly described, their pump houses can be hidden in buildings within neighborhoods and a good example would be the lakefront Collectivo - a former pump house with some of the historical equipment still present. My guess is the game does it his way simply for aesthetics. The only time you'd see a pump like this (in the US) will be a small time configuration that is likely illegal.
Since you've made the seaside cycling road a highway, you should add a cycling track to the road that goes over the river as a compensation to the bikers.
For continuity's sake, I'd suggest adding a road under the highway (underground or just underneath) to connect the older water treatment plants to your new campus. That way you wouldn't have to take the main collector just to go to another part of your facilities. Going underground is easy, but perhaps just delete the highway and run the road underneath and finagle the highway road to go over afterwards.
That park's name is good, but the shape... it reminds me to something suspicious 🤔 Also, it would be nice to use national reserve park material instead since it feature some forest and natural (?) features anyway.
I have seen a few old and abandoned pumping stations around where I live! They were used to pump water out of the Anthracite coal mines. The ones I have seen are like concrete buildings with giant pipes running into the ground and other small pipes running around the building (just sitting on the side of a local road). Since they strip mine now, they use portable pumps with long hoses.
I didn't knew this game existed 4 days ago. I made a test city to learn and got it pretty big and working fine. I learned that planning is the utmost thing in this and today I made a much improved city. Its so much fun to discover a game that's very mature (lots of patches and fixes) and that you dont see time pass. Now we need dams that obey laws of physics.
@@UCs6ktlulE5BEeb3vBBOu6DQ this exact video is full of examples of how the water goes all crazy when you make certain changes. Best practice in the game (and he does it often here) is to let it set for several minutes after a big change to let flooding go back down.
@@beagley The game is very forgiving. Like I heard in one of these videos: Cities Skylines is the modern times bonzai tree we spend hours making perfect.
I think getting rid of the fences on the new highway was a bad idea because it will prevent people driving of into the river due to the high speeds. I also noticed that there was a lot of traffic on the bridge connecting Palma de fuego to downtown. Maybe up grading it to a four lane road or something like that would be wise. I think you should add parking to the the sewage and water treatment facility. Talking about the sewage and water facility, I think you should name it the I - 10 treatment facility after the I - 10 public works campus which you named the first industrial district in the city. Also, at the very start of the episode, there was some issues with the water levels and some of the river bed was showing through. You may want to check that out. A bit of topic, after 100 episodes, I think you should bring in BOB and change some of the vanilla trees to the new trees that came with the airport dlc. Last thing, I recently watched Lee Hawkings episode on fixing the train traffic in VB. in that episode, he built a new cargo station which had no direct access to the north highway. I think adding a new interchange (Hawking interchange) would relive some of the traffic that you would be seeing on that road. I know this is a-lot, but thank for reading this. Great episode as always! (PS - there was a massive fire during the city tour 😂 classic Verde Beach 🏖)
You make a ton of good points! Looks to see a few of them implemented. I really like the BOB idea, tbh! Doesn't feel like cheating to me (too much, anyway)
As a cyclist, those bike changes would be really atrocious! I would have loved digging out the river a bit to add a dedicated bike path along the river. Good thing the sims don't care about hills!
23:51 wouldn't the pollution from the water treatment plants spread to the nearby water and affect the Water Pumps which are pumping clean water into the system?
@@SievertSchreiber no, it’ll be okay. Ground pollution would be a problem if it was a water tower. But the pump only cares about pollution discharged by sewage outlets directly into the water. I think IRL there could be issues with the setup, but none in C:S
I live in Brazil and my city pumps water from a lake, however they do NOT suck water right from the shore like in the game. That would be very dangerous to people/animals. It happens further into the lake and there is demarcations. You wouldn't be surprised if i told you a couple careless people have passed away because of it.
I really think you should expand the Verde Beach Metro network. With all the new districts being built and the traffic management limitations of the vanilla game, an expansion becomes more and more plausible.
The more Verde Beach expands, the more I want to see it as the next GTA map. There's so many back roads, twists, turns, and stretches the city would be a blast to drive through on a rocket bike. Just needs a couple more rural areas where the illicit government operations can be tucked away and a rural area the protagonists can lie low after a heist goes wrong.
I know I'm late to the Verde Beach party, but I've been binging it all over the last few weeks. You made a joke in this video about using the berm/tree buffer to distract drivers from "all the ugly stuff in the world", and that just kinda hit home for me because that's what your videos are for me. I've been struggling more than usual with my anxiety and intrusive thoughts, but your videos always calm me down and make me feel better. I am always noticing the way you handle criticism or suggestions with such grace and gratitude, and you're never afraid to admit you were wrong. You almost welcome it. It helps me remember to hold space for others, especially when I think I know more or know better. Overall, your channel is just improving my life in small ways that have a big impact, so thank you for all of the work and time you spend to share these with us.
For the gateway into the community along the berm, I think that would be a great opportunity for rock detail to spell out Verde Beach or something like that. Or flowers spelling that. They have that along the QEW in Ontario near Toronto.
Vitally important to plant trees on the berm! It reduces erosion. But needs to be done thoughtfully and sustainably. Near me a new bypass was built. 40000 trees were planted along it. 2 years later 94% of the trees had died.
This city is getting HUGE! I remember watching you first start it, you have come such a long way!! I cant wait to see if you ever make a new big series. I love the new city starts and the layout designs. Keep up the good work
**my thoughts At the beginning of the video** You can drop the low residential taxes and it will cause a boom in low residential. It also works in reverse, you can lower demand by raising taxes on a certain zone.
So in regards to water pumps, I live in Phoenix Arizona and we have a network of canals that come from lakes and feed into massive water treatment plants within the city. From there the water goes into pipes.
Columbia, South Carolina has the "Columbia Canal and River Front Park" which features a historic pump house. I don't think its currently used for the city's water supply, (I think its mostly piped down from Lake Murray which is upstream), but at one time the city did suck its water right out of the adjacent river.
@@CityPlannerPlays I currently live here! water in the city is from Lake Murray as well as Canal Water Treatment Plant in the city. There’s a lot of issues with the Canal plant - look it up online. We get boil water advisories all the time and no one I know will drink from the tap directly because of smell/color of water.
Having just come back to PA from visiting my parents in ME, I can fully appreciate a thick row of trees next to the highway. Makes the 8+ hour drive super pleasant. One of the nicer things about driving on the east coast.
After watching your various series for months, I went to try and watch casual players on Twitch. I couldn’t watch for more than like 10 minutes because everything they were doing as far as zoning placement, road hierarchy, ect was just too painful. You’ve taught me a lot about this game while watching you.
Funny, as an European, when you're talking about commercial zones near industrial ones, I immediately thought about big box stores, outlet stores and cheap restaurant chains, such as McDonalds for example. I'm a bit concerned about having water pumps this close to polluting uses. If the pollution creeps into the river, you'll immediately get polluted drinking water. And I don't think Verde Beach should become New Flint, MI.
Those broken airplanes were somehow the strangest City Skylines glitch I have seen in a long time… It’s all those overlapping flashing lights I think. The Great Party Mega Plane!
The Niagara River by Niagara Falls (and Buffalo) has cool looking water intakes. They kind of look like a CS pump. (Also the City of Buffalo has a cool round intake offshore in Lake Erie.)
24:00 Those pumps remind me a lot of the kinds of pumps you see in and around New Orleans. Though, those are intended to prevent flooding, not provide water.
I just thought about the pumping services, that we see here in germany, espacially in the ruhr area why I live. The water we are using here as drinking water is pumped underground out of the River "Ruhr" and out of the Lakes, that are in the Ruhr. A read that this kinde of water production is around 50%. The other 50% is cleaning old used water and re-use it. Such pumpininh stations i didnt see here anywhere.
The Lemonade factory looks like it has forest soil next to it, zone some forestry specialization industry next to it since it has no pollution and won't ham the water.
9:42 we talk about the height of realism a lot around here, but this is it. cutting down the old trees in a nature park to plant shorter ones so they don't block the view from the tower, instead of just.... building the tower taller.
From what I could find about the pumps, the ones in the game appear to be based off of the sort used in major stormwater/flooding drainage areas. I'm sure a modern city attempting to essentially speedrun the starting stages of one might use that initially, but later on it likely would also transition to underground ones which are much less obvious and a lot less immediately harmful to the surface conditions of the water body.
I've become an avid fan of the channel after picking up the game a couple of weeks ago. Your videos are informative as well as being fun and enjoyable.
since you removed the bike path when building the highway following the coast... how about adding a walkable key or just a pathway for biking and pedestrians?
19:00 and 27:00 will you be putting the bushes lining the rail line back? :) Re: pumping stations. Here in Australia, most of them are buildings that are so nondescript you wouldn't know you were pumping water if they weren't signposted. The closest we have to the in-game model would be (if you look at the wiki article titled "water pumping stations in Australia") is the one in Riverland, which is a bunch of low, large pipes straight into the river. Even the oldest buildings are these beautiful brick buildings (like the one on the wiki from Qld, photo taken 1946). I genuinely thought the in-game model was a "US thing" but apparently not! :D
Ok, I finally caught up with Verde Beach, after watching all of the Bluffside -videos. It has taken a better part of this year, but it's been fun. A suggestion, though, if I may: on the slope of the berm next to the entrance to the community, I've seen that the welcoming wishes have been spelled by differing colored flowers in a flowerbed,. Like in this case it would say "Welcome to Verde Beach", but the letters would be, say, red/orange flowers and the background could either be green (grass) or yellow (other types of flowers). It would be something that someone arriving would be likely to look at - instead of anything beyond the berm itself. Anyway, thanks for these, and keep them coming. Meanwhile, I'll start binge-watching the Clearwater County episodes.
Water supplies here in Scotland (and I presume the rest of the UK is largely the same) is captured in lochs (lakes if you will). These are usually man made reservoirs with the water running to treatment plants either right at the source or sometimes fed by gravity. See Loch Katrine for example which supplies most of the Glasgow area with water. I'd never thought of the pumps in the game as being odd until you pointed it out 😃
Can we perhaps see if Lee's overhaul of the train system has been added to the save. Would love to hear ypur inisghts and future collabs with other creators maybe 😏😌
If you want to see one of those pumps in the wild look up lake Greenwood SC water pump. It’s located by my old neighborhood Pucketts Ferry. It looks like a big rectangular concrete structure coming out the water with big pipes attached.
I actually work on a water treatment plant that is split into two like yours with a collector partially on a hill and then bridging over the connecting point for the two parts of the facility and then continuing across the river. And yes, berms, berms everywhere. parts of the plant feel like they are 30 feet below ground level but that's mainly because of the terrain and the massive berms and banks surrounding the sides of the plant. afaik they serve 2 purposes, prevent the plant from flooding if the river floods, and prevent leakage of chemicals from escaping in the event the large storage tank of chlorine were to leak for instance, the gas would be heavier than air and would fill in the low area and not be able to escape but if you don't get out of there, you die. we have alarms all over the facility for chlorine gas and supposedly if they go off you just have to get as high as possible, up a berm or up on a building roof until you're cleared, i've never seen that happen though or heard of it happening, only what the "old timers" tell me and since I don't do anything with the water stuff or work in that building or near it, it's outside the scope of anything I would need to be trained on.
a neighborhood near me has had at its entrance like 10 live oaks and a water fountain for years, maybe decades, major rest point for walkers and bikers (including me and my dog) along a major trail connecting two really big parks in the area. Just last week they bulldozed all the trees and took out the water. They're going to put two towers. Literally towers, not skyscrapers, like 10x10 meter brick towers flanking the entrance. They look like watchtowers you'd see in an old Italian town. No more water, zero tree coverage. When I pass the construction site, I see red, but I'm calmed imagining you Phil ranting about it for me
If you look at the Columbia River in Richland, WA where Snyder street runs into the river. I believe that to be a source of water for the City of Richland as an example of a pumping station. There is another just south called the Hains Levee pump station, however it is closed (at the moment).
Schlongwood Gardens would be a great name for the new park. It’s based upon Longwood Gardens in Lancaster, PA. They have huge fairs and and the worlds largest chicken bbq. They have a wonderful Christmas Village there too. You could put the Christmas Village opposite of the headwaters and rock formation.
UK modern residential pumping stations are discreet, with the controls in green street cabinets and the pumps underground, but there are some very ornate, old Victorian ones (Crossness or Abbey Mills, for example, which pumped sewage). Water supply in the UK usually either comes from reservoirs or underground aquifers.
In the water treatment campus you have a jog in one of the roads that keeps you from fitting one of the bigger pumps. You could eliminate that jog if you change the road on the other side of your arterial.
You should build a disney/busch gardens of some sort by the volcano beach area (zoo amusement park maybe with a mini university and business park hotel districts, high end suburb etc) hopefully cities skylines makes some sort of beach vacation expansion pack
CPP, I'm so glad you took my suggestion for the suburb name, and applied it to the park, too! ("Myrtle's Fault" can be the vernacular name for the park as spinebreaker84 suggested) Thank you, 😊 I'm seriously chuffed! 34:35 This has strong Miami-Dade freeway landscaping vibes! 👍 35:30 Speaking of Myrtle's fault it looks like we had a wildfire in the central park nature reserve! 😭
That park district is a very strong shape. Very strong. Mighty, even.
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It has big park energy
Yes! I have an idea for a new name, but I’ll leave it at that.
i'm in love with this park shape, so firm and strong... a lil bit small but gorgeous
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And a great flow down the middle
I hear its the width of the park that matters most!
The park’s managers name is Richard Balsman
This episode is sponsored by.... Manscaped.
5:44 a park in the strongest shape! Real Civil Engineer would be so proud.
It is curious how the park design allowed the anatomical representation of female and male at the same time
I bet some babies are gonna be made on that bridge
Perfectly said lol... 🤔🤔😂🤣
The genital ink blot test.
Oh laws 😂😂😂
Since the park was created by an earthquake, I can imagine it would be a neighborhood joke to call it "Myrtle's Fault".
That’s creative and hilarious 😆
@spinebreaker84 I wish I could like your comment more than once.
The surrounding area could be Scarsdale, but "Myrtle's Fault" is beyond perfect for the park itself.
I didn’t see the park as a phallus last week but the zoning made me realize
The national forest being burned down is such a throwback to when Verde was starting and we had constant fires 😭
imo it would make sense to change the water recycling plants over to eco-water recycling plants. I think the new plants would reuse a lot of the existing infrastructure like tanks and piping, so even if the game mechanics force you to completely demolish and replace the plants the 'real' build would be a much smaller upgrade to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Also the city doesn't really need it, but some water storage might be a nice addition to the water treatment campus.
Finally a topic I'm familiar with! And these pumps are closure than you think! Milwaukee, and many lakeshore municipalities, get their water from pumps directly into Lake Michigan. These pumps, contrary to the game, run underground and then underwater into the deeper parts of the lake to limit ingestion of contaminated water. Similarly to the groundwater water sources you briefly described, their pump houses can be hidden in buildings within neighborhoods and a good example would be the lakefront Collectivo - a former pump house with some of the historical equipment still present. My guess is the game does it his way simply for aesthetics. The only time you'd see a pump like this (in the US) will be a small time configuration that is likely illegal.
I always laugh when CPP calls slopes too steep. Where I live, the roads into town have signs posted that it's a 9% grade
Yeah it makes me laugh as well. He calls pretty much any slope 'extreme'. Where I live there's a street with an average grade of 25%.
Since you've made the seaside cycling road a highway, you should add a cycling track to the road that goes over the river as a compensation to the bikers.
Great idea!
And it needs a barrier for keeping cars from falling of into the water.
I just want to say I appreciate the chapters in your videos, it's always nice to see.
For continuity's sake, I'd suggest adding a road under the highway (underground or just underneath) to connect the older water treatment plants to your new campus. That way you wouldn't have to take the main collector just to go to another part of your facilities. Going underground is easy, but perhaps just delete the highway and run the road underneath and finagle the highway road to go over afterwards.
I like how the park penetrates into the local neighbourhood
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That park's name is good, but the shape... it reminds me to something suspicious 🤔
Also, it would be nice to use national reserve park material instead since it feature some forest and natural (?) features anyway.
I have seen a few old and abandoned pumping stations around where I live! They were used to pump water out of the Anthracite coal mines. The ones I have seen are like concrete buildings with giant pipes running into the ground and other small pipes running around the building (just sitting on the side of a local road). Since they strip mine now, they use portable pumps with long hoses.
I didn't knew this game existed 4 days ago. I made a test city to learn and got it pretty big and working fine. I learned that planning is the utmost thing in this and today I made a much improved city. Its so much fun to discover a game that's very mature (lots of patches and fixes) and that you dont see time pass. Now we need dams that obey laws of physics.
Welcome! We’re not addicted at all. And CPP is the best channel. And you’re right about the water, we all know it behaves a little… not right?
@@beagley They coded the dam output relative to current instead of pressure. Rookie mistake.
I'd love to see your city
@@UCs6ktlulE5BEeb3vBBOu6DQ this exact video is full of examples of how the water goes all crazy when you make certain changes. Best practice in the game (and he does it often here) is to let it set for several minutes after a big change to let flooding go back down.
@@beagley The game is very forgiving. Like I heard in one of these videos: Cities Skylines is the modern times bonzai tree we spend hours making perfect.
37:15 this place would be perfekt for a metro station. Love the new build and the improvements you made :D
Metro is coming... but it will be a little while longer.
I love the river presence that’s developing. Makes the aerial outlook look more natural
I think getting rid of the fences on the new highway was a bad idea because it will prevent people driving of into the river due to the high speeds.
I also noticed that there was a lot of traffic on the bridge connecting Palma de fuego to downtown. Maybe up grading it to a four lane road or something like that would be wise.
I think you should add parking to the the sewage and water treatment facility.
Talking about the sewage and water facility, I think you should name it the I - 10 treatment facility after the I - 10 public works campus which you named the first industrial district in the city. Also, at the very start of the episode, there was some issues with the water levels and some of the river bed was showing through. You may want to check that out.
A bit of topic, after 100 episodes, I think you should bring in BOB and change some of the vanilla trees to the new trees that came with the airport dlc.
Last thing, I recently watched Lee Hawkings episode on fixing the train traffic in VB. in that episode, he built a new cargo station which had no direct access to the north highway. I think adding a new interchange (Hawking interchange) would relive some of the traffic that you would be seeing on that road.
I know this is a-lot, but thank for reading this.
Great episode as always! (PS - there was a massive fire during the city tour 😂 classic Verde Beach 🏖)
You make a ton of good points! Looks to see a few of them implemented. I really like the BOB idea, tbh! Doesn't feel like cheating to me (too much, anyway)
Love seeing how you choose areas for your noxious uses and developing the area to make it seem real, like berming.
As a cyclist, those bike changes would be really atrocious! I would have loved digging out the river a bit to add a dedicated bike path along the river. Good thing the sims don't care about hills!
Love the palm trees at the approach to the bridge, would be really cool if you mirrored it on the other side too and built something over there 🙂
23:51 wouldn't the pollution from the water treatment plants spread to the nearby water and affect the Water Pumps which are pumping clean water into the system?
Yep, drinking water is going to get polluted i think
I believe that the game handles ground-based pollution and water-based pollution as two different types that do not mix
Realistically yes, in-game no
He should be pumping water from the area where the treatment plants are treating water near the ocean along the river.
@@SievertSchreiber no, it’ll be okay. Ground pollution would be a problem if it was a water tower. But the pump only cares about pollution discharged by sewage outlets directly into the water. I think IRL there could be issues with the setup, but none in C:S
The water we get here in Denmark, is pumped up from the underground. So the pumping station just look like a square concrete or brick house.
I live in Brazil and my city pumps water from a lake, however they do NOT suck water right from the shore like in the game. That would be very dangerous to people/animals. It happens further into the lake and there is demarcations. You wouldn't be surprised if i told you a couple careless people have passed away because of it.
another pleasant stay in VB!
I really think you should expand the Verde Beach Metro network. With all the new districts being built and the traffic management limitations of the vanilla game, an expansion becomes more and more plausible.
In Australia I have seen some water pumping complexes at major water reserves and dams
The more Verde Beach expands, the more I want to see it as the next GTA map. There's so many back roads, twists, turns, and stretches the city would be a blast to drive through on a rocket bike. Just needs a couple more rural areas where the illicit government operations can be tucked away and a rural area the protagonists can lie low after a heist goes wrong.
Could the district that you redeveloped be called Bermingham to recognise the soil dumping?
I like that!!
Loved when CPP said "It's Bermin' time!"
Yet another great video - thanks CPP
I know I'm late to the Verde Beach party, but I've been binging it all over the last few weeks. You made a joke in this video about using the berm/tree buffer to distract drivers from "all the ugly stuff in the world", and that just kinda hit home for me because that's what your videos are for me. I've been struggling more than usual with my anxiety and intrusive thoughts, but your videos always calm me down and make me feel better. I am always noticing the way you handle criticism or suggestions with such grace and gratitude, and you're never afraid to admit you were wrong. You almost welcome it. It helps me remember to hold space for others, especially when I think I know more or know better.
Overall, your channel is just improving my life in small ways that have a big impact, so thank you for all of the work and time you spend to share these with us.
This was a great vid as usual, finally starting to get caught up in this series!
The paths you built next to Kellerhouse Avenue at 22:07 would be better off as bike paths, giving them more usefulness.
The park zone is the strongest shape of the day
For the gateway into the community along the berm, I think that would be a great opportunity for rock detail to spell out Verde Beach or something like that. Or flowers spelling that. They have that along the QEW in Ontario near Toronto.
Vitally important to plant trees on the berm! It reduces erosion. But needs to be done thoughtfully and sustainably. Near me a new bypass was built. 40000 trees were planted along it. 2 years later 94% of the trees had died.
This city is getting HUGE! I remember watching you first start it, you have come such a long way!! I cant wait to see if you ever make a new big series. I love the new city starts and the layout designs. Keep up the good work
**my thoughts At the beginning of the video**
You can drop the low residential taxes and it will cause a boom in low residential. It also works in reverse, you can lower demand by raising taxes on a certain zone.
So much creativity!
So in regards to water pumps, I live in Phoenix Arizona and we have a network of canals that come from lakes and feed into massive water treatment plants within the city. From there the water goes into pipes.
That train bridge fix with the quay wall was MASTERFUL. I could never.
thank you for yet another great episode, CPP! Take care and until next time!
Columbia, South Carolina has the "Columbia Canal and River Front Park" which features a historic pump house. I don't think its currently used for the city's water supply, (I think its mostly piped down from Lake Murray which is upstream), but at one time the city did suck its water right out of the adjacent river.
That's super interesting! I'm going to look it up!
@@CityPlannerPlays I currently live here! water in the city is from Lake Murray as well as Canal Water Treatment Plant in the city. There’s a lot of issues with the Canal plant - look it up online. We get boil water advisories all the time and no one I know will drink from the tap directly because of smell/color of water.
Having just come back to PA from visiting my parents in ME, I can fully appreciate a thick row of trees next to the highway. Makes the 8+ hour drive super pleasant. One of the nicer things about driving on the east coast.
After watching your various series for months, I went to try and watch casual players on Twitch. I couldn’t watch for more than like 10 minutes because everything they were doing as far as zoning placement, road hierarchy, ect was just too painful. You’ve taught me a lot about this game while watching you.
Love the new cliff side view houses. Would definitely expect to see some fencing and forestry along the cliffs to avoid accidents and erosion though.
Funny, as an European, when you're talking about commercial zones near industrial ones, I immediately thought about big box stores, outlet stores and cheap restaurant chains, such as McDonalds for example.
I'm a bit concerned about having water pumps this close to polluting uses. If the pollution creeps into the river, you'll immediately get polluted drinking water. And I don't think Verde Beach should become New Flint, MI.
Viva la Verde!! 🌴🌴🌴
Haven't even watched the video yet, but it still puts a smile on my face when I see a CPP VB notification! 👨🍳💋
Those broken airplanes were somehow the strangest City Skylines glitch I have seen in a long time… It’s all those overlapping flashing lights I think. The Great Party Mega Plane!
Nice park. 😳 Cue George Takei! Oh my!
The Niagara River by Niagara Falls (and Buffalo) has cool looking water intakes. They kind of look like a CS pump. (Also the City of Buffalo has a cool round intake offshore in Lake Erie.)
I would love if you dedicated an episode to decorate natural areas. Id love if you could detail the islands in the middle of the river.
24:00 Those pumps remind me a lot of the kinds of pumps you see in and around New Orleans. Though, those are intended to prevent flooding, not provide water.
Thanks for another fun episode! You could place a bike path down the side of the new hwy segment along the river :)
Yep, in Yuma Arizona we have inland water treatment. The Colorado river is where we get all of our water for agriculture irrigation and citizens.
And now we wait to see how long it takes CPP to notice that the drinking water might get polluted
Love your work, been a subscriber for a long time, I’m a landscape architect and a huge golfer, please align your golf course properly
Sorry wrong map, the other one
Phil, I know you want to keep this a family friendly establishment, but...
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I just thought about the pumping services, that we see here in germany, espacially in the ruhr area why I live. The water we are using here as drinking water is pumped underground out of the River "Ruhr" and out of the Lakes, that are in the Ruhr. A read that this kinde of water production is around 50%. The other 50% is cleaning old used water and re-use it. Such pumpininh stations i didnt see here anywhere.
The Lemonade factory looks like it has forest soil next to it, zone some forestry specialization industry next to it since it has no pollution and won't ham the water.
i love watching your videos while working from home. So calming
9:42 we talk about the height of realism a lot around here, but this is it. cutting down the old trees in a nature park to plant shorter ones so they don't block the view from the tower, instead of just.... building the tower taller.
From what I could find about the pumps, the ones in the game appear to be based off of the sort used in major stormwater/flooding drainage areas. I'm sure a modern city attempting to essentially speedrun the starting stages of one might use that initially, but later on it likely would also transition to underground ones which are much less obvious and a lot less immediately harmful to the surface conditions of the water body.
I've become an avid fan of the channel after picking up the game a couple of weeks ago. Your videos are informative as well as being fun and enjoyable.
I'm following your series for a while but never comments, apologies for that. I've to say for a vanilla city it's a very good looking, like it so much
always good to sit back and watch city planner plays
since you removed the bike path when building the highway following the coast... how about adding a walkable key or just a pathway for biking and pedestrians?
19:00 and 27:00 will you be putting the bushes lining the rail line back? :)
Re: pumping stations. Here in Australia, most of them are buildings that are so nondescript you wouldn't know you were pumping water if they weren't signposted. The closest we have to the in-game model would be (if you look at the wiki article titled "water pumping stations in Australia") is the one in Riverland, which is a bunch of low, large pipes straight into the river. Even the oldest buildings are these beautiful brick buildings (like the one on the wiki from Qld, photo taken 1946). I genuinely thought the in-game model was a "US thing" but apparently not! :D
Ok, I finally caught up with Verde Beach, after watching all of the Bluffside -videos. It has taken a better part of this year, but it's been fun. A suggestion, though, if I may: on the slope of the berm next to the entrance to the community, I've seen that the welcoming wishes have been spelled by differing colored flowers in a flowerbed,. Like in this case it would say "Welcome to Verde Beach", but the letters would be, say, red/orange flowers and the background could either be green (grass) or yellow (other types of flowers). It would be something that someone arriving would be likely to look at - instead of anything beyond the berm itself.
Anyway, thanks for these, and keep them coming. Meanwhile, I'll start binge-watching the Clearwater County episodes.
Very sturdy and confident park. 👌
Water supplies here in Scotland (and I presume the rest of the UK is largely the same) is captured in lochs (lakes if you will). These are usually man made reservoirs with the water running to treatment plants either right at the source or sometimes fed by gravity. See Loch Katrine for example which supplies most of the Glasgow area with water.
I'd never thought of the pumps in the game as being odd until you pointed it out 😃
Can we perhaps see if Lee's overhaul of the train system has been added to the save. Would love to hear ypur inisghts and future collabs with other creators maybe 😏😌
A modern day Robert Moses…Converting the riverside bike lanes to highway. Kidding, love the content!
If you want to see one of those pumps in the wild look up lake Greenwood SC water pump. It’s located by my old neighborhood Pucketts Ferry. It looks like a big rectangular concrete structure coming out the water with big pipes attached.
“Just craziness! Absolute pandemonium!” -CPP describing my life
I’m gonna start using “absolute pandemonium!” in my daily life all the time now I can feel it.
We're not only 2 away from the 100th episode, we're also 6 years away from 200 in game years of Verde Beach
For pumps like that, check out Danville IN, it's next to the park, right off the main road. It looks EXACTLY like those pumps
16:59 this animation killed me. but I shared your moment of joy. the result is so satisfying !
I am echoing others in that I’d love to see the return of the cycling facilities by the river. It is such a huge hill that the bike roads are on now
I actually work on a water treatment plant that is split into two like yours with a collector partially on a hill and then bridging over the connecting point for the two parts of the facility and then continuing across the river. And yes, berms, berms everywhere. parts of the plant feel like they are 30 feet below ground level but that's mainly because of the terrain and the massive berms and banks surrounding the sides of the plant. afaik they serve 2 purposes, prevent the plant from flooding if the river floods, and prevent leakage of chemicals from escaping in the event the large storage tank of chlorine were to leak for instance, the gas would be heavier than air and would fill in the low area and not be able to escape but if you don't get out of there, you die. we have alarms all over the facility for chlorine gas and supposedly if they go off you just have to get as high as possible, up a berm or up on a building roof until you're cleared, i've never seen that happen though or heard of it happening, only what the "old timers" tell me and since I don't do anything with the water stuff or work in that building or near it, it's outside the scope of anything I would need to be trained on.
a neighborhood near me has had at its entrance like 10 live oaks and a water fountain for years, maybe decades, major rest point for walkers and bikers (including me and my dog) along a major trail connecting two really big parks in the area. Just last week they bulldozed all the trees and took out the water. They're going to put two towers. Literally towers, not skyscrapers, like 10x10 meter brick towers flanking the entrance. They look like watchtowers you'd see in an old Italian town. No more water, zero tree coverage. When I pass the construction site, I see red, but I'm calmed imagining you Phil ranting about it for me
If you look at the Columbia River in Richland, WA where Snyder street runs into the river. I believe that to be a source of water for the City of Richland as an example of a pumping station. There is another just south called the Hains Levee pump station, however it is closed (at the moment).
Schlongwood Gardens would be a great name for the new park. It’s based upon Longwood Gardens in Lancaster, PA. They have huge fairs and and the worlds largest chicken bbq. They have a wonderful Christmas Village there too. You could put the Christmas Village opposite of the headwaters and rock formation.
Around Montana Farms and Ranches with water rights, use similar pumping stations dotted all across to the state for irrigation and watering cattle.
UK modern residential pumping stations are discreet, with the controls in green street cabinets and the pumps underground, but there are some very ornate, old Victorian ones (Crossness or Abbey Mills, for example, which pumped sewage). Water supply in the UK usually either comes from reservoirs or underground aquifers.
Have you thought of developing any of the islands between the radial community and downtown ? Maybe something like City Island Park in Harrisburg, pa
Neighborhood name suggestion: Realism Heights
In the water treatment campus you have a jog in one of the roads that keeps you from fitting one of the bigger pumps. You could eliminate that jog if you change the road on the other side of your arterial.
If you turned dynamic weather on, those huge fires would happen less, if at all. At least that's how my experiences have been.
You should build a disney/busch gardens of some sort by the volcano beach area (zoo amusement park maybe with a mini university and business park hotel districts, high end suburb etc) hopefully cities skylines makes some sort of beach vacation expansion pack
that park district... uh... looks really cool Phil!
Love getting notifications!! Thank you for this series. You are the god of verde beach, technically.
You should try incorporating the large pine trees into one of the roads or parks in verde beach. They are clean and crisp and nice.
I watch you videos when I'm going to sleep. So damn relaxing!!!!
In the uk we primarily use artifical resevoirs that drain from the bottom, no visible pumps to be found
CPP, I'm so glad you took my suggestion for the suburb name, and applied it to the park, too! ("Myrtle's Fault" can be the vernacular name for the park as spinebreaker84 suggested) Thank you, 😊 I'm seriously chuffed!
34:35 This has strong Miami-Dade freeway landscaping vibes! 👍
35:30 Speaking of Myrtle's fault it looks like we had a wildfire in the central park nature reserve! 😭
Ran to the comments at the speed of light when I saw the shape for Scarsdale park
Wow what a strong hard solid park looks huge I like the stream as well