Water Main Break Articles

It’s safe to say our municipal pipes and plants are aging. According to an EPA survey, about 30 percent of pipes are...

A three-day hunt for a broken water main in Bay City, Mich., ended on Monday when city crews were finally able to...

Louisville Water has completed its first large-scale inspection of a 48-inch cast iron transmission main while it was filled with water and...

A pipe breaks. A sewer overflows. A project goes over budget. The media smells a story — they want answers, and they...

What do you get when you combine college students and a 93-year-old broken water main? The short answer is: a mess.On July...

Wisconsin has requested a federal disaster declaration to help local governments cover the cost of repairing broken water mains, frozen water towers...

The City of Hamilton, Ontario, is investigating how loads of concrete ended up in a municipal sewer during the construction of a...

“Out of sight, out of mind” might be one way to describe the nation’s leaky municipal water system. But when pipes begin...

Monetary relief could be on the way for municipalities across Wisconsin now that an application for federal disaster relief is in the...

It’s Friday morning in Madison, Wis., and the rush to work is underway. But on the city’s southeast side, five co-workers have...

New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Carter Strickland announced that improved maintenance and training in the agency’s Bureau of Water...