This summer they replaced the gas line going down the major road in our town. About 2 months ago they started replacing the water lines down the other side of the road, going from a 6inch line to an 8inch line.
The gas side has new sidewalks and went fast since the pipe was PLASTIC. The water line side is taking a while because it is steal and can not be bent around, over, or under stuff that gets in the way.
I was reading todays paper and an 80 yr old man was complaining that he had to have help getting into his barbers because they had tore up the sidewalk and filled in the hole with dirt and gravel.
I know why they are doing this that way, they need easy access to get any leaks fixed and to connect everyone to the new line.
When they got infront of the place I work they ran into our water line that was misplaced on the map they had, they fixed our pipe and the next day started digging again and ran into the storm drain from the road gutters that wasnt on the map. They had to cut the pipe and put in turns to go under it. The drain was 8feet by 5feet according to the guy that talked to me. This "go around" as I call it has been dug up 3 times in the last few weeks because it has sprung MAJOR leaks.
The old water line was put in place in the 1940's. So its around 60 years old. What does this guy want? It needs replaced and they are going as fast as they can. Is he going to pay each time they have to dig up the new sidewalk to connect people to the new line? Is he going to pay for repouring the concrete? Does he want to wait until theres a major line break so he can complain about that?
Sorry just needed to vent.
The gas side has new sidewalks and went fast since the pipe was PLASTIC. The water line side is taking a while because it is steal and can not be bent around, over, or under stuff that gets in the way.
I was reading todays paper and an 80 yr old man was complaining that he had to have help getting into his barbers because they had tore up the sidewalk and filled in the hole with dirt and gravel.
I know why they are doing this that way, they need easy access to get any leaks fixed and to connect everyone to the new line.
When they got infront of the place I work they ran into our water line that was misplaced on the map they had, they fixed our pipe and the next day started digging again and ran into the storm drain from the road gutters that wasnt on the map. They had to cut the pipe and put in turns to go under it. The drain was 8feet by 5feet according to the guy that talked to me. This "go around" as I call it has been dug up 3 times in the last few weeks because it has sprung MAJOR leaks.
The old water line was put in place in the 1940's. So its around 60 years old. What does this guy want? It needs replaced and they are going as fast as they can. Is he going to pay each time they have to dig up the new sidewalk to connect people to the new line? Is he going to pay for repouring the concrete? Does he want to wait until theres a major line break so he can complain about that?
Sorry just needed to vent.
