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**Flat** · (This post was last modified: 08-03-2012 02:01 AM by Flat.)

My local paper put out this article today:

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120802/NE...29940/1707

Apparently water mains are busting all over?

Here's a graph from the site:

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So I looked around a little bit. Pretty amazing whats going on in and around the Midwest.

"Workers with the Western Virginia Water Authority responded Wednesday to the intersection of Elm Avenue and Franklin Road in Roanoke for a break in the 12-inch waterline near the downtown fire department, authorities said."

"The city averages 40 to 50 waterline breaks per month. Workers responded to 68 breaks in May and 28 in June."
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/312269

In Philly they're below average yet, but yet "IS THERE something in the water? City workers were mopping up Wednesday after the city's third water-main break in 10 days."
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/201208...Tioga.html

In Jersey:

"MUA Chairman Victor D'Ambrosio said the 6-foot water line entering into the Haledon municipal building cracked open on the top approximately 6 1/2 feet on July 21 around 10 a.m. resulting in a loss of water pressure.

D'Ambrosio said it was more common for cracks to occur on the bottom or side of the water line."
http://www.northjersey.com/community/164...l?page=all

Also in New Jersey...

"Officials say a 48-inch water main broke, shooting a geyser of water up from the street and creating a 15-foot long, 14-foot deep hole on Portland Avenue near Watchung View Place, not far from downtown Scotch Plains."
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08..._coun.html

doomed

In New Brighton:

"Jim Riggio, the authority's general manager, said the break, at 10th Street and Fourth Avenue, was reported around 6 a.m. Riggio said he didn't know the cause of the break, but said it was a large one; workers spent the morning replacing a full joint of pipe, about 20 feet long."
http://www.timesonline.com/news/local_ne...6e291.html

Ohio:

"STRONGSVILLE, Ohio — Water main breaks in two different cities have left some residents and businesses without service."
http://fox8.com/2012/08/02/traffic-water...maple-hts/

Denver:

"Denver Water responded to a 12-inch water main break that will close a major route out of Denver until Thursday afternoon."
http://kdvr.com/2012/08/02/water-main-br...afternoon/

A St. Louis paper posted this article about the causes:

"Hot and dry conditions are being blamed for three water main breaks overnight across St. Louis and other recent breaks in the area."
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro...2f8ad.html

This drought may be way more fun than we thought!

Save me Niiiiibiiiruuuu~~!
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**Full Circle**

That's crazy. People might say aging infrastructure, but how does that explain the dramatic rise for this year?

doomed

**ana** · **ana** . User ID: 110717 08-02-2012 11:28 PM **Posts: 4,852**

things tightening up goood

**Flat**

I was scrolling onto page two looking for my own thread. I got so confused!

Thanks for the pin! Anon

**Coolchick**

Full Circle Wrote:

That's crazy. People might say aging infrastructure, but how does that explain the dramatic rise for this year?

they're doin stuff..

**FreeFlow**

Flat Wrote:

I was scrolling onto page two looking for my own thread. I got so confused!

Thanks for the pin!

Strangely enough I was just thinking hope he-she sees where the thread went and doesn't panic chuckle

**The Martini Maven**

it all started with the watermelons exploding in china Scream1

**AC488** I got no balls User ID: 488 08-02-2012 11:34 PM

Those are all places currently in this extreme heat wave. More water usage, more water pressure, more bursting pipes.

**Flat**

Go ahead a do a news search for water main breaks in the past 24 hours.

Pretty interesting.

Either way it's time to cut back on water use, everyone. Please.

**Astrochik**

could the hot weather make the pipes expand and the ground shrink?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 111347 08-02-2012 11:37 PM

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 36055 08-02-2012 11:37 PM

AC488 Wrote:

Those are all places currently in this extreme heat wave. More water usage, more water pressure, more bursting pipes.

Actually its more changes in water pressure but pretty much the same.
That and the ground dries out and shrinks and cracks putting more pressure on the outside of the pipes too.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 100165 08-02-2012 11:38 PM

Full Circle Wrote:

That's crazy. People might say aging infrastructure, but how does that explain the dramatic rise for this year?

I posted this a week or so ago and no one gave a crap...

I can't find the thread, here is the link. Heartflowers

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/us/ris....html?_r=1

**Don Ricardo De La O**

A lot of this stuff was installed 40-100 years ago Most cities have been using Maintenance funds to f*ck off with. Here where I live water mains are leaking under the streets. In the winter it freezes and the streets buckle from the pressure of the ice beneath. The city has no money to repair it all.... this is happening all over the USA.

**Don Ricardo De La O** · (This post was last modified: 08-02-2012 11:41 PM by Don Ricardo De La O.)