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A matter of a few hours to patch the leak.

A day or so to inspect, test and bless the fix.

Days, weeks, months do the paperwork, get permission to fix, fix, write the reports, impact studies and to get California's slow walked permission to turn the flow back on.

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“Days, weeks, months do the paperwork, get permission to fix, fix, write the reports, impact studies and to get California’s slow walked permission to turn the flow back on.”

And knowing all that, he was probably right to declare an emergency