The Madison (Wisconsin) Water Utility recently documented a project in which they dug up a century-old water main as part of a street reconstruction.
In 1911, crews installed the very first section of water main beneath Monroe Street, connecting a short, two-block stretch of homes between Harrison Street and Edgewood Avenue to municipal water for the first time. By 1925, new water infrastructure would extend almost all the way to Nakoma, and it would remain in service for decades — until this year.
“This two miles of main is in amazingly good shape. It hasn’t had a lot of breaks,”
