Water Shut off Along Carney
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 @ 2:41 PM
Prince George, B.C. – City crews are responding to a watermain break on Carney and have shut down water supply along that street from 5th Avenue to River Road.
Traffic control is on site and there will be single lane alternating traffic on Carney between 5th and 3rd Avenue.
Water is expected to be restored by 10 tonight, or sooner if at all possible.
The cause of the break is not yet known.
Comments
Remember a P.A.C is more important!
Yes, by all means. Let’s spend $50,000,000.00 on a PAC and patch the water and sewer mains for the next 50 years!!
watermainbreakclock.com
Other than getting rid of a current crisis when a water main starts leaking and undermining surface improvements such as roads, sidewalks, driveways, vegetative areas and even building foundations, repair is not the ideal solution.
Eventually replacement of knows susceptible materials and installations has to be given serious consideration.
At what time is that the best option? When and where should we spend the money to tear up blocks of downtown streets to replace pipes which might be close to a century old. When were those replaced and what is the age of the current underground installations. What is the failure rate?
Do we know such things? If so, where can we find this information in the City that has just stated it will make information available? PGMap does not appear to tag underground services with such information. It also does not tag underground service repairs locations and dates and pipe improvement which may have been made. Any good GIS based maintenance record would have such information. It may be there, but not made available for public viewing. If so, why not?
It is our City. We should be shown the state of the “health” of this City so that we can see what to expect. We know what a PAC might cost, what it might look like, where it might be built, and what it will cost the City to operate.
Why do we not know in some detail what the state of the health is of this City’s infrastructure, especially that which we cannot see because it is underground?
Only with such knowledge can anyone logically decide priorities.
Amen to both above comments.
metalman.
We have had 4 breaks at the junction of the water main in the street to the connection with the houses along the street. For the last 3 years, the properties and the street adjacent have had their lawns and driveways as well as the street curbs torn up at least 4 if not 5 times. They supposedly fixed the connections or wherever the breaks were re-filled the road and property, shook the neighbourhood like a series of earthquakes to compact the soil and eventually paved the driveway and street in patches and installed a new curb that does not even match the profile of the existing one.
It seems obvious to me that those breaks were all as a result of substandard installations by the contractor in the mid 1970s. They also would not all have started to leak at the same time. They were likely leaking for some time before detection.
As with our roads, this City needs to take better care of ensuring that civil work is better inspected when it is installed. Poor work that is poorly inspected leads to very expensive maintenance costs.
Provide improved specifications, workmanship and inspection of work in place and we will have lower maintenance costs and will be able to afford those extra things that other cities can afford.
How do we compare in that category to other cities? Remember the KPMG report? How did they rate us? Then again, maybe they did not. If not, why not? Who inspected their work and let them off the hook?
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