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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

One thing to consider here as well (I hate to be a wet paper bag here) but once these lines get re pressurized as well as all the down stream devices there is a very real chance that other smaller issues pop up. It would be all the lines of seals/valves failing after re pressurizing.

This happens frequently in other transmission level utilities and I would expect there to be additional downstream repairs after this main line is fixed.

And almost certainly could be sinkholes in the area of the break for a while after the fix.