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Originally Posted by fotze2
Man, if one of my lines failed and impacted this many people I’d go to jail. Why the hell do we allow this. This line would score pretty damn high on the old risk matrix on the consequence side. Imagine if this was a gas line? CEO would be lynched. But it’s water so whatevs.
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In the risk matrix it doesn’t end up very high though. You don’t kill anyone, it’s just water so environmental damage is low, you don’t really sell water so financial impact is negligible, cost to repair is a little more but doing NDE to avoid these incidents would be costly, so you are left with reputation which again doesn’t really matter when you have a monopoly. Sounds like a 2, not moving the needle.
I think the old risk matrix is why this type of event happens.