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Originally Posted by V
I'm surprised to hear that. With the McKnight break in 2004 they had boats out rescuing people. That transmission main wasn't as big, but it was winter, so with a bunch of frozen CBs there was nowhere for the water to go. That was a wild one.
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Hahahaha that was long my time. Although for those who remember the large break in Cochrane this approximately 4-5 times of that lines flow rate.
No real updates as of yet aside from the City working to secure a series of 12” pumps for potable water approximately 6-7km’s to try and increase available water to draw from other facilities. In addition they are also sourcing pumps to increase capacity at the Glenmore waste water facility as well.
The biggest unknown is still the break itself. Sounds like our crew won’t be able to start excavating to locate and size up the rupture until at best late day tomorrow at worst Sunday mid-end of day. Then the real work begins. Also keep in mind the water leak came from the weakest point and the actual break itself could be a kilometre Away and any infrastructure that was compromised by the running water will have to be excavated and repaired as well.
Based on our last update I would personally expect water restrictions to remain in place for 5-7 days conservatively. But that situation is fluid (haha see what I did there) in the meantime PLEASE don’t be one of the jackwagons that is coming down to try to get a look at everything. All you’re doing is getting in the way and pissing everybody off.