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Bit of a hick up this morning

December 15th, 2009 at 10:13 am

They are still working on my street at the moment; they have finished the kerbing & channeling. Today they started on the road surface; outside my stretch they needed to go down to 225mm not the normal 125mm of road base. So while digging out the old road surface they broke the water pipe to my house. This is while I was doing the washing today. So I never got to finish washing until seven hours later. Water board had to replace the copper piping for 6 metres of 9 metres wide street. While at it they put in a new washer for the water meter too!

This broken pipe put the road gang back by about 3 hours as they still had to finish the job to a certain point before they stopped for the day. Now they will do second half of the street tomorrow then when they finish the topping gang will come and finish the job on Friday or before Christmas I hope.

3 Responses to “Bit of a hick up this morning ”

  1. momcents Says:
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    Sounds a bit like when my washing machine decided to break three days before a three-week long vacation and I had to go to the laundromat! Glad you got your wash done!

  2. frugaltexan Says:
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    Wow - you would think they'd have had a map showing where the pipes are buried. Glad you have your water back!

  3. tightwad kitty Says:
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    Oh! They knew that the water pipe was there but thought it was much lower not on the surface of the road base. There are markers put into the kerbing to say where these pipelines are there, W for water, G for Gas, E for electric & T for telephone cables and a few others. Before the local council did the kerbing they sent out a special machine about $10000 worth to find all underground pipelines & cables. Our council is the biggest local council most likely in the world, it cover the whole city so have teams of different gangs doing specialise jobs interacting to a degree but not always, up until this month the water for the city was controlled by the council as well! Now has it own urban utilities covering water and sewage and have much larger area to cover and separate pricing & billing from our next rate bill too!

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