Major Water Main Break in Bowness Area

[Firebot]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

Farkas is so obnoxious on reddit:



Aww shucks Jeromy, don't be so hard on yourself!

Easy to take accountability for something that obviously isn't your fault. It would ring more true if he apologized for being a giant turd sandwich for 4 years wasting a lot of time with stunts that might have otherwise been directed to stuff like this (not that it would have actually changed THIS)

It's clearly better than Gondek immediately blaming the province and federal government for city responsibilities before even knowing what caused the break.

We get it, you really don't like Farkas. But it's weird to go after him for overcommunication and even taking high road to hold himself accountable and not blame predecessors for the current hot mess as excuses.

And he's spoken at length about the mistakes as councilor and how he would approach it completely differently being humbled. So far he's been communicative as mayor and I'd rather gladly have him be obnoxious at times.

[musth]

Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

I thought it was at least speculated (maybe confirmed) that road salt seeping into the ground was a major contributor to failure. We didn't used to lay down salt, and now we use an ass ton of it.

I'd rather the money go to winter tire rebates personally, I can't stand how rusty everything gets because of it, and environmentally I'm sure it's meaning a lot of cars hit the scrap yard years earlier, plus a bunch of #### in our rivers.

Thought that beet juice was tried, anyone know how that turned out

[Ironhorse]

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/want-known...l?guccounter=1

A Calgary city councillor is calling for increased accountability after an inquiry revealed $3.6 billion of the city’s water infrastructure budget — more than one-third — went unspent between 2003 and 2024.

The report showed that in that 22-year time frame, there were only two years in which the city’s water utility spent within five per cent of its total budget — on average, 36 per cent of the budget was unspent each year.

So we could have been doing a lot more for our water infrastructure but didn't, even though the money was allotted to it.

By underspending their budget nearly every year, is this how city water utility managers get themselves nice year end bonuses?