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Topic: burst water main
Posted by: Kevin Regan
Date/Time: 09/09/10 09:42:00

I doubt whether Thames Water will admit to it, but there seems to be more than one common factor, here, not just the location (although heavy traffic vibration clearly has overstressed the pipe here) but also they seem to occur in the early morning.
Is that due to people starting to go about their morning routine putting an increased demand on  pipes where the water demand has eased overnight?
Can they not "pressure test" or check in some other way if more problems are waiting to occur near the section of pipe that has failed?
It seems to me that when we had a pipe burst, the repair did no more than transfer the fault along the pipe so that it failed several more times.


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
burst water main08/09/10 08:49:00 Sharon Allen
   Re:burst water main08/09/10 11:30:00 Vanessa Smith
      Re:Re:burst water main08/09/10 11:40:00 Sarah Tonks
         Re:Re:Re:burst water main08/09/10 12:09:00 Andrew Sibley
            Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main08/09/10 12:16:00 Andrew Sibley
         Re:Re:Re:burst water main08/09/10 12:22:00 Sharon Allen
            Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main08/09/10 20:53:00 Steve Taylor
               burst water main09/09/10 09:42:00 Kevin Regan
                  Re:burst water main09/09/10 13:08:00 Adam Beamish
                  Re:burst water main  (The Ham hit !)09/09/10 13:09:00 Jim Lawes
                     Re:Re:burst water main  (And just a month ago!)09/09/10 13:12:00 Jim Lawes
                        Re:burst water main  (Brentfordians are used to getting soaked! )09/09/10 13:21:00 Jim Lawes
                           Re:Re:burst water main  09/09/10 13:32:00 Jim Lawes
                              burst water main  09/09/10 16:43:00 Anya Morris
                                 Re:burst water main  10/09/10 02:17:00 Neil Chippendale
                                    Re:Re:burst water main  10/09/10 07:39:00 Sharon Allen
                                       burst water main  10/09/10 10:41:00 Kevin Regan
                                          Re:burst water main  10/09/10 11:48:00 Steve Taylor
                                             Re:Re:burst water main  10/09/10 12:42:00 Vanessa Smith
                                                Re:Re:Re:burst water main  11/09/10 09:55:00 Robert A Field
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main  14/09/10 07:52:00 Steve Taylor
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main  14/09/10 09:40:00 Sarah Sharp
                                                         Re:burst water main  14/09/10 09:44:00 Sarah Sharp
                                                            Re:Re:burst water main  14/09/10 11:02:00 Jennifer Long
                                                               Re:Re:Re:burst water main  14/09/10 11:12:00 Vanessa Smith
                                                                  Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main  16/09/10 07:50:00 Jennifer Long
                                                                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main  17/09/10 12:50:00 Jennifer Long
                                                                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main  18/09/10 09:32:00 Jennifer Long
                                                                           Burst water main  16/09/10 21:24:00 Kevin Regan

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