When two hundred psi turns a forty two inch pipe into a cannon, your city is one second away from a catastrophe. The May issue of municipal sewer and water is here. In Waterbury, Connecticut, a single break cut water to half the city and shuttered twenty four schools. The pressure is on, and open trenching isn't an option. Missouri doesn't have a coast, but it's drowning. When five hundred year floods submerge your intake motors, the clean water stops. The EPA has Houston in a chokehold. Six thousand two hundred miles of pipe must be inspected, cleaned and repaired right now. In Palestine, Texas, rag balls are a three thousand dollars a week tax on the city. Twenty one manual cleanings every single week just to keep the pumps from seizing. Read the May issue of MSW to find out how they fix the unfixable.
