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It’s 4:30 p.m. downtown, rush hour just beginning, wind chill minus 30. The last thing a water utility needs now is a major line break.
Yet that’s exactly what happened in January 2014 in Columbus, Ohio. A 24-inch water main popped, flooding about 10 city blocks. Water poured...
