Ex-Urban Water Crisis

[Scottathew]

I like that there were continuing updates and that the contractors and GLWA worked as a team. Okay....there's one more ask: even if the remaining 25 miles of pipeline is solid and good to go for a long time, we should have more than 12 feet of replacement piping on hand here in Michigan close to the pipeline. Enough for two water main breaks at least so 300 feet at least. Also if anyone knows why this pipe break happened please add that info to this thread, thank you.

You have a lot of the same questions I do.

It seems scary to me that the Port Huron feed of this system was down for nearly two months.

We should have more pipe on hand. Ideally we should be able to have such an event remedied in days, not weeks. I also think the system does not have enough redundancy, but do acknowledge that the cost of additional redundancy would be extremely high.

[Funaho]

It's the same problem that's screwing up our supply chains now. Everything is JIT these days because nobody wants to make the capital outlay to keep extra stock on hand. As soon as there is a delay anywhere in the chain the whole thing grinds to a halt.