From the Daily News:New York's 7,000 miles of water mains, tunnels and aqueducts - some dating back to the 1870s - deliver 1 billion gallons of drinking water every day.
They also break down a lot. There were 444 water main breaks in the last fiscal year and 360 breaks the year before.
"The good news is it's a very redundant system so even when there's a break of this size, you can keep supplying water to customers," Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Farrell Sklerov said.
The city spends millions of dollars a year maintaining the underground system.
Why the massive building when the infrastructure is so fragile? Shouldn't we invest in upgrades first?
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"Why the massive building when the infrastructure is so fragile? Shouldn't we invest in upgrades first?"
Are you crazy? How would my developer friends make money off your backs? Now stop making such intelligent suggestions. You're gonna make me look bad. :-(
Why the massive building when the infrastructure is so fragile? Shouldn't we invest in upgrades first?
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Well John Q Public, when one of your electeds stands up and calmly talks about yet another development project, or your community board okay yet another spot variances, or someone like Penny Lee from City Planing comes up with yet another brainstorm why don't you ask them about this dear sweet gullible doormat?
(Note to City Planning: why don't you all just take your pension and leave us alone - do something useful with your education like getting a second job designing jughandles for North Dakota Roads?)
Was this photo part of the "innovative flooding plan" that the city was recently praised for?
Naw, its the new street cleaning initiative.
You just turn on the main and flood the street and don't worry about sweepers or staff.
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