Major Water Main Break in Bowness Area

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

Another woke, female mayor blowing up pipes. CONNECT THE DOTS, SHEEPLE.

Can we somehow implicate Trudeau into this. He’s from there.

Can we assemble the 'Woke Mob' of Trudeau, Gondek, etc? Then we just give them shovels and some pipe and tell 'em to get to work!

They're clearly not doing anything else important. Surely they know how to dig.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

If I’ve learned anything from the Canadian politics thread, it’s that anything and everything is always the Liberals fault in the end.

You'll change your tune when Calgary "white hats" whoever helps Montreal fix their problem.

[Torture]

Waterloo too! Why would silly hall and Gondek not be prepared for this??

Waterloo Region – Regional staff has identified a large water pipe that needs repair and will shut it off for these repairs from approximately August 19-25. This pipe supplies roughly 20 per cent of the region’s drinking water.

Impacted areas include Kitchener, Waterloo, northwest Cambridge, St Jacobs, Elmira, Breslau, Mannheim, Shingletown, West Montrose, Conestogo, and St Agatha. Residents and businesses in these areas are asked to reduce all water use as much as possible until the repair is complete.

“This is critical infrastructure, a large water pipe reaching four feet in diameter in some sections, that delivers drinking water to our community, and supplies water for emergency services,” said Mari MacNeil, director of Water and Wastewater Service for the Region of Waterloo. “We hope to make repairs quickly without significant impacts to the community.”

https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/Modu...3-40d404436801

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Torture

Waterloo too! Why would silly hall and Gondek not be prepared for this??


https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/Modu...3-40d404436801

It makes you wonder from a strategic perspective, who is doing this and what is the end goal with a lot of these problems that are intertwined.

[powderjunkie]

Did we ever figure out why all those left feet were washing up in the PNW?

Perhaps there is a connection...

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

Did we ever figure out why all those left feet were washing up in the PNW?

Perhaps there is a connection...

It turns out those people are all right.

[Samonadreau]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

If I’ve learned anything from the Canadian politics thread, it’s that anything and everything is always the Liberals fault in the end.

At least you learned something.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

If I’ve learned anything from the Canadian politics thread, it’s that anything and everything is always the Liberals fault in the end.

The astute reader may notice a bias against the sitting government in the Alberta politics thread too.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

The astute reader may notice a bias against the sitting government in the Alberta politics thread too.

Are you obsessed with me???

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Are you obsessed with me???

I am formally asking you to quit using this reference.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

I am formally asking you to quit using this reference.

The forum software does not allow me to stop. Denied.

[V]

Originally Posted by Torture

Waterloo too! Why would silly hall and Gondek not be prepared for this??


https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/Modu...3-40d404436801

I think you’re misunderstanding what is happening in the Waterloo situation. They have proactively identified a weak point in their transmission system and have begun plans for a planned repair that will have minimal impact on the communities being fed by the main. This is in stark contrast to a critical main blowing up before anyone thought it would be a good idea to take a look at it.

The Waterloo story is a perfect example of what could have happened in Calgary if they had seen something coming instead of being blindsided.

[Fuzz]

Any idea on the Montreal one? Same type of pipe as we have, or something else?

[V]

Sounds like it was a 2m pipe, so highly likely it was concrete cylinder pipe, but it was newer, built in 1985. The weakest concrete cylinder pipe was manufactured in the 70s, so an ‘85 pipe blowing up would be pretty surprising. They also had more redundancy, but sounds like they had a depressurization of the main which necessitated a boil water advisory. I haven’t heard if that’s been lifted yet, they would need to be able to get samples passed in the lab and get some flushing done before lifting the advisory. But because of the redundancy they shouldn’t have to wait for the repairs to be completed before they lift restrictions.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by V

I think you’re misunderstanding what is happening in the Waterloo situation. They have proactively identified a weak point in their transmission system and have begun plans for a planned repair that will have minimal impact on the communities being fed by the main. This is in stark contrast to a critical main blowing up before anyone thought it would be a good idea to take a look at it.

The Waterloo story is a perfect example of what could have happened in Calgary if they had seen something coming instead of being blindsided.

The Calgary plan was to inspect this fall. They prepped for that inspection in the spring. Calgary is likely an example of you inspection doesn’t eliminate risk it reduces risk.

When you look at Calgarys response they turned a significant water main failure into an event that had zero consequences.

That is successful risk mitigation. One of the tools - planned integrity inspections failed. Other mitigations, redundancy, water restrictions, spare pipe available, a network of municipalities and contacts with available additional spares all worked.

The other question is was this inspection driven by the Calgary situation or previously planned.

[Zary's-Mustache]

I hope the city ordered enough white hats.

[Fuzz]

I wouldn't say zero consequences. Many businesses suffered and continue to suffer.

[Kidder]

Yeah don’t want to pile on, but I took a significant financial hit, and will do so again come September as we go back to stage 4.

Not blaming the city, but zero consequences is not proper wording.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Kidder

Yeah don’t want to pile on, but I took a significant financial hit, and will do so again come September as we go back to stage 4.

Not blaming the city, but zero consequences is not proper wording.

Yeah that’s fair,

Limited consequences for the scale of the incident.

[Bigtime]

The City has a dashboard showing usage here:

https://tinyurl.com/mr8ybfn7