2 WATER MAINS BURST OPEN ON SEPARATE VALLEY STREETS.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Daily News Staff Writer Two separate residential water mains ruptured Monday, turning streets into rivers, forcing traffic to be rerouted and offering a fresh reminder that portions of the city's water system are on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of collapse. Although both breaks occurred at about 5:15 a.m., Department of Water and Power officials say they are not related. The ruptures came in 6-inch mains under streets about two miles apart. No property was reported damaged, said DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection spokeswoman Marie Lemelle. The larger of the two gushers sprayed the 14300 block of Runnymede Street and knocked out water service to about 65 customers for seven hours. Service in the other area, the 15000 block of Friar friar [Lat. frater=brother], member of certain Roman Catholic religious orders, notably, the Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, and Augustinians. Although a general form of address in the New Testament, since the 13th cent. Street, was restored quickly for 40 customers. The cleanup of mud and debris took hours. ``It's really hard to determine where it can happen next and why,'' Lemelle said. Utility officials believe that water in the 50-year-old pipes got so cold that the cast iron shrank shrank v. A past tense of shrink. shrank Verb a past tense of shrink shrank shrink and cracked. The rupture rupture, in medicine: see hernia. of a 30-inch, 76-year-old water line in Encino last October prompted DWP officials to accelerate plans to replace 14 miles of high-risk trunk lines by next year. The DWP eventually plans to replace 144 miles of pre-1940 pipe, which has no protection against corrosion and deterioration, over the next 20 years. While the pipes that broke Monday were newer and much smaller than trunk lines, their failure showed that other parts of the water system are also susceptible to sudden blowouts. The torrent of water proved quite a sight for Katherine Tinning, a Runnymede Street resident since 1961. ``It was like a raging river The Raging River is a modest tributary to the much larger Snoqualmie River in western Washington State. It is located in the western foothills of the Cascade Mountains in east central King County, Washington. It gets its name from the large amount of water is sometimes carries. running down the street past my house and up over the curb,'' said Tinning, who lives three houses from the break. Tinning said she and some neighbors took the precaution of filling bathtubs and bottles with water before service was shut off. ``Everybody in the neighborhood has been out there gazing at a world of wonder on our corner.'' A 25-foot section of the pipe under Runnymede had to be replaced. The Friar Street break required six feet of new pipe. Ductile iron Ductile iron, also called ductile cast iron or nodular cast iron, is a type of cast iron invented in 1943 by Keith Millis[1]. While most varieties of cast iron are brittle, ductile iron is much more ductile, as the name implies. pipe was used in the new sections because it is strong and more resistant to temperature changes than cast iron, Lemelle said. CAPTION(S): Photo, map PHOTO Department of Water and Power workers expose a valve on a broken pipe in the 14300 block of Runnymede Street on Monday. Michael Owen
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