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...on March 16th, 2005...
while City engineers were
in serious denial about another gradual forcemain leak, and were ever-so-busy implying that the new, (resident-discovered),
slow leak (in the outgoing forcemain), is really more likely
...a previously un-noticed 'sulphur hot-spring'(???)
...the NEWLY-BUILT
Munster-to-Richmond forcemain ---which is not even in use yet as a
sewer pipe--- had to be dug up in two segments in order to make
repairs!
This ugly sight greeted
commuters on March 16/05: the forcemain just built (and not even in use yet),
requiring excavation and repairs.
All of this occurred at the same
time residents were fighting with city officials who refuse to
repair a slow leak on the outgoing sewage forcemain. |
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Photo at right shows the four
foot section cut out of the Munster to Richmond forcemain at
the first excavation site (not far from the Richmond Fen).
The yellow object in picture is part of the temporary pump
arrangement to the keep work area from flooding with
groundwater. |
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PHOTO BY BRUNO
SCHLUMBERGER, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN |
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Photo at left shows Richmond
resident, Bruce Webster, standing beside one of the two city
excavations to repair the brand new forcemain.
While the
sleeve connection can be clearly seen in this picture, one
city engineer, not realizing this photo had been taken, wrote
to another Richmond resident that, "Since we are using high
density polyethylene pipe, a repair is completed by fusing
a new length of pipe in place of each of the removed pieces."
This city engineer's
misrepresentation is just the tip of the iceberg. Polyethylene
was touted as safer because all the joints were to be
"fuse-welds". During construction over forty sleeve
connections were used, presumably to save time and effort.
(Safety be damned.) |
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