News Briefs: Workers Uncover Wooden Water Main Dating Back to 1700s

Utility workers in Albany, New York, recently uncovered a wooden water main that likely dates back to the 1700s underneath the pavement on Broadway. Before they pulled out the 6-foot segment of log, the workers weren’t sure what they were looking at. “As soon as we saw it, I thought, ‘Well, that can't be an old telephone pole,’” the water department’s commissioner tells the Times Union. “Wood water mains go way back. It reminds us that Albany was an older urban settlement.” Albany Water shared images of the colonial-era water main on Twitter: Back in the 1700's, water mains