It's a series of tubes!

Myke's 'blob.

It's a series of tubes! Thu, Jul 26. 2007

... But there's not supposed to be a big hole in one of 'em!
There is something wrong in this photo - can you spot it?

Water leak, just around the corner from my house. It was detected by a city-bus driver who noticed his bus fell into a hole. Clearly this leak had been active for some time - weeks? months?
"Last one in the hole has to do the dishes!"

12" Ductile Iron water main that was installed about 33 years ago... just rotted away.
Exposing the main


Rather interesting: instead of digging out all the muck, they just called in a sewer-sucker truck and with a high-pressure water blaster, slurped it all out. This has many advantages over digging, but the biggest is that they don't risk breaking into the sewer line 12" deeper. But they were at this for hours anway.
Sewer sucker truck


Working late into the night


Cutting the replacement pipe section


Through the magic of iMovie HD and a little patience, I give you this video montage. It's worth having your speakers on for when the worker is hammering the pipe - wicked-cool sound it makes.
gurglesproing
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