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Water Main Break Floods Philadelphia's Center City
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Alright thanks guys. Rescheduled for Thursday instead. Hopefully it's good by then.
Don't think so. According to SEPTA's website, only a few buses are being re-routed:
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I am the cleanest person in the entire world
and yet it's doing nothing to cool me down GO AWAY HEAT
I used to work for a neighboring water utility, we'd hear stories about how they are still finding, active, wooden pipes in the water system. We even had some on display.
Obviously this isn't a wooden pipe, just like to add my Philly Water Knowledge :)
Obviously this isn't a wooden pipe, just like to add my Philly Water Knowledge :)
Meh, just cordon it off underwater and build a New Philly over top of it. As long as no one needs to fight the Four Kings it should be fine.
Yea, just found out that main was installed in 1920. The benchmark life expectancy we always worked with was 70 years, so yea, wonder how much remaining critical infrastructure (this was a big main) is also decades past 'dead'.
So much of our lives are handled by duct tape and hope. In a programming class our teacher who use to write software for banks told us how much systems from the 70s, and 80s were still in use. Would scare you shitless
To be fair even modern American finished plumbing is also a free for all of mixed materials, "too tight or not tight enough" and gaskets everywhere.
There are shockingly large amounts of the water infrastructure here that are 100 years old. The AVERAGE age of water mains in Philly are 70 years old, which is as you say the expected lifespan. They're increasing the rates by 11 percent over the next three years, and have already increased rates by 70% since 2005 in an effort to start replacing mains at a faster rate. It's just a shame all of this came at the end of the lifespan of these mains and not in time to do regular maintenance to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
What's even scarier is that there are gas mains that are over 100 years old. Thanks baby boomers for inheriting a world class infrastructure and then doing nothing to maintain it for the next generation! We really appreciate it!