News Briefs: Excessive Number of Water Main Breaks Unveils Further Problems

In this week’s news briefs, due to a rash of water main breaks, a city in Kansas discovers 13 miles of pipeline that had been improperly installed in the 1990s, and a large sewer project in Omaha, Nebraska, can resume after a 14-month hiatus now that a stuck tunnel-boring machine has finally been freed
News Briefs: Excessive Number of Water Main Breaks Unveils Further Problems

Officials in Lawrence, Kansas, discovered that 13 miles of pipeline had been improperly installed after being inundated with 22 water main breaks over a three-week period.

“It was pretty extensive relative to what we usually do because we were running multiple crews,”...

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