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Originally Posted by GGG
You look at things like that and you see how close the city was to this being a complete non-issue that no one would have known about. It gets to December water use is low the system can make up the supply we have some excavations being done and some traffic diverted and no one ever under stands what the city avoided. Instead they are 6 months late with the plan and we all get to be water experts.
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Ya, I'm betting that normally they wouldn't be doing that level of inspection for a pipe at 50% of it's lifespan, but other municipalities having issue with the same type of pipe had them move that up. Unfortunately it was just short of an unexpected failure. With the install of the acoustic monitoring this year, and then a follow up robotic inspection in December, they were definitely starting to get worried but probably thought they were ahead of it.