Crews work on water ... are cast iron mains between 62 and 85 years old that suffer from external corrosion, making them brittle. “We’re really seeing heavy main break occurrences on pipe ...

The drought has Californians feeling the pressure to conserve water, but some century-old pipes may ... crews dug out a broken cast-iron water main first installed in 1863- pipe first put in ...

But despite the spectacular visuals of the latest rupture, the breaks are down to only 33 a year since they have replaced the majority of the decades-old cast iron pipes, according to city water ...

CHELAN — It has been 2,000 years since the Romans built their aqueducts, and 200 years since Philadelphia began using cast-iron ... water systems, many of which rely heavily on old pipes that ...

Snell was right. Levine did some digging and discovered that the so-called logs were in fact super old water pipes, dating back to 1812. That’s around the time that the city was using both wooden and ...

New Brunswick into its Sesquicentennial Club recognizing the city for its continued use of a 150-year-old cast iron water pipe. "Cities that made the commitment to laying iron pipe more than a ...