Someone is messing with the water and it’s affecting my precious bodily fluids ! !
What??? Nothing on the seemingly bi-weekly occurance of a water main break in Albuquerque? Not a one on that list - must have had at least 10 in the last year or so.
Well, a comparison to the number of breaks in other months might be appropriate for a rational judgment to be made.
There is nothing ‘going on’. And you missed several main breaks. We’ve had at least four breaks in my neck of the woods in the past two years. Normal, I assure you.
Many of the water mains in American cities are now well over the century mark. Old clay pipes and cast iron does not last forever. I believe the newer plastic on metal will last longer, but they are all dying from the day they go in the ground. Add in natural earth movement and you get “stuff happens”.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
Bush’s fault.
I can speak to the first couple, in Tampa Bay.
East Columbus Ave water mains are probably 100 years old. The warranty expired, I suppose.
The mains in Tarpon Springs (all of north Pinellas County) were laid down in the late 70’s and began breaking wide open in the late 80s. The county sued the contractor back to the stone age, and have been replacing the water mains since then.
Treasure Island: The ground around there is coastal sand, not the best foundation, and there is always a lot of traffic pounding the ground as folks drive to and from the beach.
I don’t think that there is anything unusual.
Water mains break ALL the time. I used to work in the industry. You’re imagining things — as evidenced by the fact that you didn’t pull an older month’s worth of stories for comparison.
Glad I have my own well.
Penn State (State College PA) issued a drinking water advisory yesterday afternoon, warning against usage of on-campus drinking water because of a “high turbidity level” from one of its wells. The cause is stated to be a lot of recent rain.
A statement on Penn State Live, live.psu.edu, advises students to use boiled or bottled water for “drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes and food preparation until further notice.”
At the dining facilities, fountain soda machines are unusable.