A Water System So Broken That One Pipe Leaks 5 Million Gallons a Day

[sarisataka]

A Water System So Broken That One Pipe Leaks 5 Million Gallons a Day

On an abandoned golf course, overgrown with shrubs and saw grass, you can hear the rushing water from 100 yards away.

Near Hole 4, past the little bridge and crumbling cart paths, what looks to be a waterfall comes into view, pouring down through the brush and into the creek below. Except the torrent of water gushing up through the mud isn’t from a spring-fed stream or a bubbling brook.

It is spewing from a broken city water line.

As residents had to boil their tap water and businesses closed because their faucets were dry, the break at the old Colonial Country Club squandered an estimated 5 million gallons of drinking water a day in a city that had none to spare.

It is enough water to serve the daily needs of 50,000 people, or one-third of the city residents who rely on the beleaguered water utility.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/water-system-broken-one-pipe-112817587.html

Just one example of our infrastructure problem. We slap a band-aid on something that needs major surgery.

[Faux pas]

1. Kickin' with disgust!

[MLAA]

2. In a state who spends their time banning books and stomping women and minority rights

instead of addressing infrastructure problems.

[GoCubsGo]

3. And, they're not alone in this regard.

As I look out onto my street here in West Shithole, South Carolina, I see orange barrels and pylons marking a place in road where the sewer line that runs underneath is caving in. Which means the street is also caving in. The streets in my neighborhood are full other patches where this has happened, and this is the second or third time this particular cave-in has occurred. But, hey! We have low taxes! And, it's more important for our legislators to work on executing women for having abortions.

[MLAA]

4. And all the money they spend defending their oppressive and frequently illegal laws in court.

[aggiesal]

8. Biden's Infrastructure Bill can't get money to your community fast enough. ...

Hope they can get it fixed soon.

[aggiesal]

7. And don't forget, they use money intended for the poor on ...

State-Of-The-Art Volleyball facilities at Universities.

[MLAA]

9. Oh, yes. Had forgotten that travesty!

[Delphinus]

5. Wow.

There should be criminal negligence charges filed against those that allowed it to continue to happen.

[OMGWTF]

6. I spent a week in Mississippi one day.

I plan to never set foot in the south again. Talk about shithole countries!