Karen, any problems with WATER?

[DJFyrewolf36]

Prayers on the way they get it fixed quickly!!!

[Freedom]

WOW I hadn't heard (been working the vegie garden all weekend with the nice weather).

Prayers for all of you! Yes folks with small children, aged, handicapped, they will find this a real challenge.

Any chance Paul will share his pics with us?

[wombat2u2004]

Eight million gallons an hour is a lot of water. It must be fairly gushing out.
I noticed in the article that the join was held together by a metal collar over a rubber sleeve ???? Perhaps the rubber perished ???

[Cinder & Smoke]

Eight million gallons an hour is a lot of water.
It must be fairly gushing out.

I noticed in the article that the joint was held together
by a metal collar over a rubber sleeve ????
Perhaps the rubber perished ???

That's the Million Gallon Question!
As for "the gushing" ... that's a bit of an understatement!

They have to go look for the pieces & parts of the failed joint - those pieces
washed into the River during the "gusher" and need to be recovered.

The basic joint design - a metal collar over a rubber sleeve and seal - is a
very common type of waterpipe joint that is used in modern water systems.

[Karen]

Eight million gallons an hour is a lot of water. It must be fairly gushing out.
I noticed in the article that the join was held together by a metal collar over a rubber sleeve ???? Perhaps the rubber perished ???

The bad part is that that intersection was only 7 years old, so they are going to have to do some serious investigation as to why it failed. Thankfully the river is fairly placid at that point, so it should not have gone too far downstream.

[elizabethann]

You can always come up here for water.

[lvpets2002]

Karen you all can come to Texas anytime.. We have good water so far.. Really Prayers going out to all of you.. That is just all so horrible..

[Karen]

Thanks for the offers, everyone! We have plenty of bottled water for now, and the line has been fixed. Today they are running the "good" water through the pipe, and doing water quality testing, it should be just another 24-48 hours before the tap water is safe again.