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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
I wonder how much reducing utilization/pressure would have helped delay/mitigate this? Because even if they detected the urgency of the problem, how long would a long term solution take? I suppose they could have just tried to patch hot spot after hot spot, but I'm not sure how viable that would have been given the restart procedure?
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I think if you did repairs off peak season you could have done them with limited restrictions. April or October would have given you opportunities to do it with minimal disruptions I would think. So essentially you go in and do what we just did during peak water use time and spend a month fixing. If you did that annually you could probably reduce the risk of significant impact substantially.
I don’t know what the cumulative impact of all the pressure cycles would be though if you were shutting g it down regularly. Eventually it will need replacing. The other thing I wonder is how much of our main system was build between say 1965 and 1980 because from the look of it it would all be at risk.