If and when our PAC gets built maybe the city can hand out free tickets to individuals who will suffer due to our infrastructure shortcomings. Kinda to take their minds off their misfortunes for a while. Sounds like a plan.

is that why I had no water pressure at 5:00 a.m. I live up Chief Lake Rd a bit. Happy to say the water pressure did return around 7:00a.m.

Non union workers would have had that fixed in fifteen minutes.

The city outside workers does an outstanding job. They have the manpower on hand to take care of the situation.

Its easy to take shots at them, but in reality they do a better job at dealing with emergencies like this than a private contractor can.

Non union workers built it! Pretty tough fixing someone elses inferior work in 15 minutes.

I see they have the obligatory guy standing around breast feeding his shovel. :)

Wondering why it took so long for crews to get there. If I am not mistaken it was reported around 4 this morning was it not?

Axman; I suggest YOU jump in the hole while the machine is digging? Give it a rest already !!

Being reported at 4:00am doesn’t mean that somebody was contacted right away. At that hour it would most likely be an answering service that took the call. Then they’d have to find the on-call foreman. Not knowing what he’d be up against how many people to call out? What machinery is needed? The excavator would probably take about 30 minutes to travel from town to the Hart….
Blue prints probably needed to be looked at to see where the pipes actually are, and most likely they had to contact the ‘call before you dig’ crew out to do a cable locate before they could put one shovel in the ground.
Yes, it seems easy to say it was called in at 4:00am but a situation this big would take a bit of time to gather the resources.
Also, from what I’ve heard, the utilities division doesn’t have their own dump truck; they’d have to beg and borrow from the streets division which probably needed each and every truck they had for sanding today with all this snow.
Hire a contractor? Do they have access to these blue prints? Just from a phone call, would they know exactly what equipment they’d need? or would they have to show up to the job site then see what the situation is and then make calls to get equipment and manpower …..
People, please put some thought into the process that needs to take place in situations like this.

Posted by: Hello? on March 7 2014 12:10 PM
Axman; I suggest YOU jump in the hole while the machine is digging? Give it a rest already !!

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Awww…. Did I hurt your feelings?

Since you seem to be humour impaired I’ll explain it to you. But just once so you’ll have to pay attention:

It was a joke.

Yes, it’s an old joke but that picture was just begging for it.

City claims, CKPG news yesterday, that the city infrastruture , above and below ground, as it is now, is in dire need of repair and upgrade and they have no money for to do it…so my question is where is the money for a PAC hiding? use it to fix the infrastructure FIRST, then lets talk PAC.
I will be a titch miffed if taxes go up for a PAC and I can’t get my water, sewer or snow removal services.

Posted by: axman on March 7 2014 10:55 AM
I see they have the obligatory guy standing around breast feeding his shovel. :)
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You’re such a troll!

Posted by: Dragonmaster on March 7 2014 1:08 PM
Posted by: axman on March 7 2014 10:55 AM
I see they have the obligatory guy standing around breast feeding his shovel. :)
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You’re such a troll!

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I prefer to think of it as my Dragonmaster impersonation… :)

The comment above by Hello is quite accurate. The first call went in at 4:30 and they were here assessing the situation in less than a half hour. Crews were on the see before 7 am including all big machinery.
I’m my opinion, the City has done a great job with response time and fixing the situation as fast as they can. It is now 1:30 pm and we have water back on. I give kuddos to the City staff that are currently working in MY front yard.
I feel for my fellow neighbours in regards to the flooding that has taken place. With age, we all break!

With age, we all “leak”. That would be a better turn of a phrase, given the circumstances.

On the upside, they get a new water main and by the looks of it, less snow to melt!

I once had a water main break on my side of the property line a few blocks away years ago… and the city doesn’t cover a break if its on the property owners side of the property line. Back then I didn’t have the money to fix it right away, so it ran for most of the winter and I had trickle of a creek going through my yard into the riven behind almost the whole winter. It was a little oasis for the local birds and small animals and what not. I was at the end of the line so it was probably a good thing cleaning out all the crap that was in the line anyways. The pipes up East of the Hart are real weak all built on in fill and sand.

Aren’t all those pipes in the Hart built too shallow and prone to freezing? Some areas they ask people to keep the taps running to hopefully prevent freeze up. Could be a case of frozen main cracking from the ice pressure and not so much old lines or shoddy workmanship, we have seen a few of those but normally when the mercury dips for a good few weeks driving the frost ever lower icing them up once the usage goes down at night

I thought my water pipe was frozen. Around this time of the year my water temperature approaches freezing so the city told me to keep the water running. Eagleone I was told by a city worker that the water quality in low usage lines was not great so I think you are right that having your waterline break run all winter was a good thing.