Calgary water main break: More damage found, water restrictions to last 3-5 more weeks

[@JimMacintosh]

Immediately cancel the $5,000,000 of our money you’re wasting on changing the city’s slogan. Spend it on infrastructure. This city is so incompetent.

[@perryelyod4870]

As a visitor to Calgary, even I get pissed off at all those public art projects, like the blue circle on the overpass. The only person to benefit from this was the ''artist''. Just another vanity project. It makes me question whom the mayor and council have as dinner party guests.

[@ArrrrrrPeeee]

Or at least make the slogan accurate, ie: Calgary: go away, we're full.

[@laurieh4742]

What's the slogan?

[@genehauser9217]

@@ArrrrrrPeeeeI couldn’t agree more!

[@GeofryMasters]

Its on purpose. You're incompetent if you think otherwise

[@jenncameron2016]

Does she think we’re going to go along with her 5wk to flatten the water curve? She said verbatim this morning, “We’re all in this together.”…I almost puked in my mouth. Sounds so familiar 🙄

[@chon5761]

It seems our infrastructure can’t support urban densification, council should reconsider their rezoning ideology. I Can’t imagine more demand than we have now in affected areas.

[@angelabrolund1373]

They spent over a million dollars with these talks about rezoning and STILL they did not listen to the people. The money was not well spent.

[@warden6032]

60% of supply based on one feeder main with no redundancy...?

[@ye333]

Supposed to last 100 years so redundancy is not necessary. Of course it's also normal that the pipe breaks at

[@Sc00terNut-zq3gs]

Sad to see Calgary falling apart. This is unacceptable. The people of Calgary deserve better.

[@warden6032]

5 more hot spot locations, which will have to be excavated, not to mention they have to source the pipe for these additional repairs...3 to 5 weeks sounds like an optimistic estimate. We are operating just at equilibrium with demand meeting supply with no surplus and we have Stampede on the horizon where a bunch of visitors descend on the city...this situation sounds way worse then what they initially communicated.

[@jackiewalker5240]

Two weeks to flatten the curve....

[@sivaforutube]

@@jackiewalker5240 hahaha, what a joke this Canadian politicians are-all of them.

[@Kryssyskingdom]

​@@jackiewalker5240same incompetence

[@Kryssyskingdom]

Well, before it was none of the province's business, but because now Gondek created a city emergency and claim it's gonna be 5 weeks....The people can ask for legal help from the province...Time for third party immediate inspections and review of Calgary...think McIvor is who to complain to in provincial

[@mikewhite2457]

Forget all of this. I want to hear from the civil engineer who only designed 1 pipe out of bearspaw to feed the community. Where's the redundancy?? Brutal planning Calagry.

[@bradgillund2633]

He might be dead. It was 49 years ago.

[@jackiewalker5240]

It was never designed for this. They keep adding to the city and relying on a 50 yo system

[@brianwhitney9181]

​@@jackiewalker5240This is the question. This City continues to expand more and more with new communities with no regard for what it does for the overall water shed. We are land locked and we cannot continue to expand beyond the limits of our water supply. We cannot count on the snow pack every Spring to bale us out as it is shrinking. If we're not getting good Spring rains then where do you expect to get water.

[@johnwang9914]

The redundancy is that all the district reservoirs is still being supplied by the Glenmore treatment system, it's just that only 80% of normal capacity can be provided by doubling the Glenmore system's performance. Perhaps a supplementary feeder from the Bearspaw system to the Glenmore system to make up the difference might be warranted especially as the main feeder will eventually have to be replaced and perhaps such a supplementary feeder had been planned towards the end of life of this feeder line. It's very rare for redundancy to handle full capacity, even the active active data servers often run both se vers well over 50% hence the failure of one server can't be fully compensated for by the remaining server.

[@GratefulOutlook]

For one the 50-year-old system was supposed to last for another 50 years and nobody likes to pay higher taxes than what they have to.

[@chrispalubeskie3256]

city planers and engineering as well as city council is at fault to not have put in a second pipe with the cities growth over the last 2 decades. How dose a city look past having something like this not put in place so that they can do maintenance on a aging infrastructure. Id say run your water and let these people figure it out. They made there beds its time for them to lay in them.

[@loganknowshockey221]

This is embarrassing .

[@HONDAVFRV4]

This is what happens when you vote in NDP/Liberal minded Mayor's. Their focus is on vanity projects like cycle lanes, down town library for the homeless, drug safe injection sites etc. For infrastructure like water mains, roads, snow clearance etc forget it.

[@Randi-dq3fk]

End results in equal diversity...😂😂😂!!

[@ArrrrrrPeeee]

​@@HONDAVFRV4correct 💯

[@cw9282]

@@HONDAVFRV4 Was this infrastructure put in place when NDP/Liberals were in office or Conservatives?

[@HONDAVFRV4]

Calgary Stampede starts in 3 weeks. Visitors are not going to be happy if they can't flush the toilets in the hotels. Roughly 120,000 people visit the Stampede every day. This is going to get interesting.

[@DaKrawnik]

lol

[@xmusicmanx1]

City needs to cancel the event before they embarrass themselves some more 😅

[@moniquemcpherson6927]

Remember the flood and how ppl stepped up, big-time? We still had Stampede.

[@chantelbakos]

@@moniquemcpherson6927 yes we did

[@chantelbakos]

if only you save water now immediately so over 120,000 people/ guests at the stampede can flush the toilets.

[@jamesmckiernan7681]

There is no way any of this should be taking so long lol. We were heading for severe drought and they were talking water restrictions. Then we got all that rain and that almost got us put of the situation fully to the point where water restrictions didn't make sense. Now this feeder line broke and it shpuld have taken maybe a week max to fix but now more damage is found and it's got g to take 3 to 5 weeks? Something isn't adding up

[@paulselebay4402]

This is a failure of previous water managent city officials that didnt invest in a second emergancy pipe.....

[@sivaforutube]

your comment is idiotic. What if the there was no indication at that time that Trudeau will bring in 1.5 million people every year? Who knew?

[@sojourneroftheland]

The only thing I'm surprised about is that the comment section is open. Sounds alot like 2 weeks to flatten the curve...

[@ye333]

Of course. Smelly hair and dirty cars are the masks.

[@lyndaysmeltzer]

It’s not funny is serious. I’m not laughing about it. I’m just pissed off.

[@darrenh6169]

Those were my exact thoughts too!

[@benvolman4976]

Doesn't surprise me at all. She's been screeching for water rationing since January. To much rain in spring. Suddenly the water main just happens to break in the most critical place. Her Chinese donors are pleased. We may never get the water back.

[@michaelkidby5204]

Exactly what I thought.

[@Essence1123]

It's been 7 days, how has emergency temporary piping not been created or considered? A MONTH restricting water is insanity. Hell even start hiring trucks to run 24/7 hauling water from the disconnected plant to the connected one!

[@docscrlock3675]

What the hell is emergency temporary piping??

[@cyb_structure]

@Essence1123 - 🙄

[@Essence1123]

@@docscrlock3675 you buy 10ish KMs of standard steel pipe which is readily available off the shelf (unlike the stuff needed for the broken pipe) and pump water from the disconnected site to reservoirs which are able to move water between them

[@HONDAVFRV4]

When the visitors turn up for Stampede and to help keep the water usage down, restaurants will need to tell their customers they will have to lick the plate clean. They will need to tell them that we don't have the water to run the dishwashers anymore.

[@homerhat420]

I like how global news pastes their logo over the deaf translator

[@chunwinglau3471]

Paying premium tax return with 3th world country water supply service. No regular maintenance or poor maintenance practice, single point of failure in such critical infrastructure design.

[@laurieh4742]

If u voted for her, a liberal or an ndp you have zero right to complain Anyone who's reading this You did this to yourself How do you like that our country and people are in some serious trouble seeing as 11 and counting members of parliament have been named as literal selling this country to the bad guys for a profit Treason!

[@MrBashem]

Once again Canadian building speeds are scary. Why does it take companies here so long to build/fix anything?

[@rezapourfarahani5061]

She talk in a way that expect applause for the poor management 👎

[@HomeSecurity-id7zt]

She is openly a Hamas supporter and uses our tax dollars to donate to Hamas in Gaza.

[@darrenforseille641]

Stampede cancelled. How can it continue with the taps running dry.

[@chantelbakos]

Too late now it’s going to happen

[@feel-the-world]

It is a big joke for such a big city can’t secure water supply

[@Wheeping-Angel]

She fired!

[@OKAYE-l7s]

The minorities are with you til next time

[@petersixthsense]

People hired to take care of maintenance by Citizens are threatening Citizens that water will run out because they couldn’t do their job. Extraordinary!!! Just resign bunch of idiots

[@michaelkidby5204]

Very well put.

[@georgeodeh7914]

How is the city helping the taxpayers with this water oproblem? This is the city's responsibility to provide alternative solutions rather than the mayor open her big mouth and threaten. Piss off G.

[@laydlow87]

This is NOT ACCEPTABLE!!! Hire tanker trucks to transport water from Bearspaw to the satellite reservoirs. Use some of that tax $$ you all take from us if need be! Either way, figure it TF out, and not in 3-5 weeks! This is beyond ridiculous! 😡 😡

[@HONDAVFRV4]

That means diverting money away from pet projects like the Pride Parade for example. Can't do that, must have parade, just can't clean our clothes, towels, bedding etc.

[@bigdaddychili0]

Oh you didn’t hear ? She said that the city has no money and that they will have to make the difficult decision of raising or property taxes 😂

[@subzero824]

Funny she said 3-5 weeks If this is in Tokyo, China, Hk or even Singapore It would take like 5 days to fix it,,,, and Calgary needs 5 weeks ,,, And how much she is getting paid? Oh and that 5 million slogan fee 🤔🤔🤔🤔 I know I didn’t vote for her

[@feel-the-world]

This mayor is demanding, should someone resign for this trouble?

[@atomicgarage5606]

Remember they inspected this not long ago... So whos not doing their jobs?

[@korky7674]

No rainbow uniforms today is good👍 now stop pushing and wasting our taxes on rainbow this and rainbow that and fix our infrastructure!

[@HAHb-zc2dp]

Good thing i refuse to lower my water use. Not gonna happen. Going for an hour long shower now. First of two at least.

[@michaelkidby5204]

More order through chaos. Get used to it.

[@georgedavidson1221]

Turn the pressure down

[@Bing.chaling797]

They should turn the water back on after this section is fixed. And build an entirely new separate feeder main and repair this one once that one is operational

[@johnsonhailey]

My thoughts too

[@berrex5152]

Must be a jeets idea to post a global news logo over the deaf translator

[@jivetalker4208]

3 to 5 weeks ! Ridiculous !

[@sirrednexx1262]

It's grossly obvious you haven't got a clue on how things work.

[@geogeer9911]

I am soooooooo shocked!

[@markskids2030]

Reduce the pressure and let it run. This could be all for nothing if the breaks keep happening down the line. Who turned up the pressure lately anyway? An engineer?

[@stg9335]

Third world problems.

[@cdpond]

Three to five more weeks? With Stampede coming in three weeks, and knowing that they'll not be able to meet the minimum three week window if their lives depended on it. Too much "touchy feely" in leadership roles, and not even close to enough ability to manage emergencies. It's not a matter of gender, it's about competency.

[@DaKrawnik]

Ok.

[@ArrrrrrPeeee]

Bingo.

[@timothywright1318]

No way this is only going to be another 3 to 5 weeks! Water is gone for the summer.

[@HAHb-zc2dp]

My water is on. I haven't reduced my water use at all I might even go get another car wash today

[@michaelmegale1589]

Unexpected and unpredictable emergency? We are run by clowns…thank the Nenshi/Gondek regimes. Presentations should be unemotional. Stop the hype.

[@AnitaKozlowski]

Two weeks to flatten the curve

[@wayne6777]

SHUT DOWN CAR WASHES. Gondek is talking about hospitals and firefighters not having enough water and residential taps going dry but people are still out there washing their cars. The honour system isn’t working.

[@rezapourfarahani5061]

Unbelievable disorganized city of Calgary 👎

[@Dot-he2ke]

3 to 5 weeks for work done in a day. Overpaid joke

[@damageinc.3695]

So why don't they drain the other five km of pipe and send the robot down that? Obviously there's gonna be issues on the whole line if they've found six already.

[@mattvangastel8615]

Ding! Ding! Ding!

[@rickmcleod9166]

Why is it , here in Alberta , the world leader in oilfield . Cannot get this line running in days , not weeks . Someone is being played . There are ways , to run a temporary line also .

[@benvolman4976]

We are being played

[@wayne6777]

Their job is to make sure that we don’t run out of water, not to lecture us incessantly. There are solutions to fill the reservoirs, they just aren’t taking this seriously enough.

[@wessproule5779]

At least Sue Henry dropped her rainbow shoulder patches for current interviews

[@benvolman4976]

And fking with the water supply isnt

[@richardfairweather2412]

Not again! Honestly, the residents of Calgary deserve better. This mayor has major plumbing problems. Robot please! 🤖

[@MisterTee]

You can mix two parts liquid hydrogen with one part liquid oxygen and make your own water. Just be careful

[@WinnieBobo-c7q]

This city is horrible

[@lchase9503]

Engineering is supposed to be a strong suit of Alberta.

[@duffman009]

This was a known problem for almost 10years that I know off... I remember working somewhere and someone on lunch break mention he knew someone who knew about the problem but the city couldn't just start digging and had to wait for this moment... flash back memory. But I remember and I know. :)

[@georgedavidson1221]

Every time the Plant in Toronto increased the pressure there would be many. Breaks. Build towers and. Build by pass mains

[@jemax31415]

Embarrassing! city maintenance team unprepared w/o materials for an emergency and taking longtime to get here. We want all responsible fired. No more excuses.

[@98gmc1500]

The city’s maintenance departments have long since been gutted, all major work like this repair is being done by contractors.

[@mikefiell8103]

Ha! If was in China, it would be fixed in 5 days! They know how to plan correctly.

[@singloiwoo7732]

Less than 5 days. In China never had more than 1 day no water. Impossible to image, even in villages, also have other ways to get water apart from city supplies. Never need to worry about water.

[@daveyyc9784]

Yeah with their dams breaking killing thousand and other infrastructure disasters in China. Not a great comparison.

[@bensonstrumpet_tips]

Agreed

[@HomeSecurity-id7zt]

China would have fixed in 1 day. Remember they built a full scale Foothills sized hospital in 3 days. And our Canadians can’t fix one measly pipe and tells us it will take 3-5 weeks. That shows you once and for all the intelligence of Canadians compared to the Chinese

[@wayne6777]

A lot of China’s rushed construction crumbles in ten years. Substandard building materials and borderline slave labour. Look up the term “tofu dreg construction”, it’s infamous.

[@mohammadtalebian3464]

Its the time to resign the most Weak Mayor of Calgary and her weak management team👎👎

[@da_lazy.spinosaurus]

If it's that serious, instead of restrictions we should just have water rations. This allows people, especially those who work or go to school to have water before and after work. Buildings used lots of water to cool, especially huge buildings, is declaring a no work week or days would lessen water consumption too.

[@Getting_real]

Has the city reached out to other cities to provide additional workers?

[@DChappelle27]

Half way point of its life at 50 years? Did they factor in all the weakening with connection points? Im sure a solid pipe with no weakened areas due to copious connections could last 100 years, but that's not the variables. Gunna be some revisions made to the "100 year" lifespan after this ordeal lol

[@TheClipperchip]

Profound failure of management and leadership.

[@sivaforutube]

Why is the announcer smiling? Are they giving some awards or something?

[@RS-el2oy]

She better hide if we run off water.

[@jimklose648]

Incompetent those going to be fired for this. Obviously the maintenance department never kept up with this.

[@nikkucharski4851]

Nobody will get fired

[@PhongLinhVlog8697]

Worst comes to worst to take a shower, wash out clothes, clean out dishes at the river. 😂

[@slydady2]

So what’s your excuse next week ? So far 7 days of excuses it’s getting old and it looks like your stampede party is still happening. Ps - make sure we see the final cost factor of this mess, I got a feeling in my gut big city like ours should not run out of power or water.

[@mzcoach]

Fools blocked the lady signing. Shame on you Global

[@KB-----2023]

Lol, I'm sure it will be fixed 2 years later when the truckers show up and protest....

[@JesusIsGoodTruth]

Nah. It’s permanent now. They didn’t get their hot and dry summer, so they did this.

[@KB-----2023]

Couldn't they just ask the jews to turn up the sun and turn down the rain a little bit?

[@Dude99124]

By Stampede we could have no water and no garbage pick up, near zero services by the City. But the good thing is their photo radar will still be working just fine, smile.

[@bensonstrumpet_tips]

After I just told my mom not to worry about the pipe saying that it would be back to normal within a week. This is not helping the city's situation. I appreciate trying to find other things to fix but this is not the news I wanted to hear 😢

[@karimkalache712]

But the circle light thing off deerfoot is okay ?!

[@laurieh4742]

Did i hear her carefully throw in 3 to 5 weeks! 7:36

[@davidk2906]

And hello stampede!

[@LanceBryantGrigg]

All I can think of when I watch this is how screwed north calgary will be when glenmore cant keep up with the city demands.

[@HAHb-zc2dp]

? We're fine up in tuscany😊

[@LanceBryantGrigg]

@@HAHb-zc2dp That's the only existing underground reservoir running from bearspaw, the rest of north calgary going east ward is screwed though.

[@HAHb-zc2dp]

@@LanceBryantGrigg nope. You need to educate yourself.

[@LanceBryantGrigg]

@@HAHb-zc2dp did you read the map? lol. i guess not. wait a few days, if it goes wrong north calgary is in bad shape. cheers.

[@mattvangastel8615]

@@LanceBryantGrigg Yeahhhhh, we f&*ked.

[@gregkillam]

Russia woulda had this wrapped up & water flowing in

[@michaelkidby5204]

Sue Henry with the authoritarian looking uniform sounds very uncomfortable and breathes quite heavy during her speech. She is uncomfortable with telling this lie. Theres more to this.

[@ArrrrrrPeeee]

So the DEI management outcomes are coming up roses 😂 Hey...at least we are well supplied with rainbow flags.

[@HONDAVFRV4]

Maybe the person who buys the flags should look after infrastructure repairs. Can't do a worse job.

[@ArrrrrrPeeee]

@@HONDAVFRV4 😄👍

[@marekrudny9086]

Just wonder which company designed and built that main. Was it SNC Lavalin?

[@oddassembler]

Relax people. They arent going to let anyone die of dehydration. Your grass might die though.

[@bushellan]

How is this info needing to be broadcast on TV? Less resources should be spent on preparing a big media event like this and more on getting everything fixed. City of calagry website could be used to provide updates with options to receive email notifications when new info is available. Reminds me of the daily Covid updates.

[@ye333]

If only the city cares about maintanence as much as compliance.

[@geogeer9911]

Why is the fire department still performing flow tests on hydrants? Can it not wait for a month? Nah... just keep on keeping on. Gonna establish a new baseline one way or another...

[@michaelmegale1589]

Our entire business community will be affected by poor infrastructure management decisions.

[@cw9282]

Meanwhile, the Province of Alberta continues to run radio ads in BC telling BCers to move to Alberta. Yea... move to a crappier province? Not happening.

[@shanewilson8728]

Alberta isn't a craper province. Obviously, you have never been to a public hospital in Vancouver where there's Heroin addicts shooting up heroin and armed with weapons . As far as I know, it doesn't cost 4,000 dollars a month to rent 2 bedroom an apartment in Calgary, unlike Vancouver. In Calgary, I can buy a decent house in a nice neighborhood for 680,000. A dilapidated house with the windows all bordered up with plywood that would be condemned by the city of Vancouver would go for 1,500,000 dollars.

[@cw9282]

@@shanewilson8728 You know why it's cheaper to live in Calgary? Because no one wants to live there so there is no demand. That speaks for itself.

[@shanewilson8728]

@cw9282 hog wash, Currently Calgary is the fastest growing city in Canada. Everyone from across Canada is moving to Calgary and Edmonton. Calgary and Edmonton have a lower crime and better quality of life. When people think of Vancouver, most people automatically think fentanyl /opioid crises and tent cities. The poverty and crime in Vancouver are getting as bad as US cities like Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

[@cw9282]

@@shanewilson8728 EIU's Global Liveability Ranking: 5. Vancouver, which is the highest in Canada. But go ahead and continue to be jealous. As I said, our real estate prices reflect the demand for our city. Population growth in Calgary/Edmonton is due to one thing only: job opportunities (since your province is willing to rape its land of oil where as British Columbians actually value our land and protect it). The minute the oil stops dripping, your province is going to be worthless. As for crime rates, why don't you tell me the difference in crime rates between BC and Alberta. According to you, the difference is such a significant factor.

[@shanewilson8728]

@cw9282 First of all ,I'm not jealous of living in a crime-ridden sh**hole of Vancouver. The world will still be using oil for at least another hundred years or more. You just think that because cars are going to be electric, the demand for oil is going to stop. Even if every vehicle goes electric, the world still consumes 65 million barrels of oil a day. Opec counties have no plans of ending production anytime soon.

[@jeffbryan3224]

who cares? HOW did the workers get hurt and cause the whole job shut down?

[@johnsonhailey]

It shouldn't! One broke an ankle, the other broke something else (I can't remember). This shouldn't be causeing a huge delay

[@SalamToU]

Flint canada 😅

[@jivetalker4208]

Gondek could care less about Stampede she would be happy to shut it down.

[@chantelbakos]

Too late now. it’s going to happen in three weeks anyway!

[@jivetalker4208]

Maybe you should get some real pipeliners on the job they would do it in no time . Im sure they don't have a bunch of DEI hires.

[@marchuk4677]

Isn't the whole pipe like 50yrs old? May as well start at the beginning and replace the whole thing now.

[@markcritic2409]

Instead of weeks, it'd be YEARS! Repair this one, then start work on a proper redundancy system to back it up!

[@davidk2906]

What is the percentage of narcissistic people who refuse to cooperate and reduce their water usage , and only offer their bleak and contemptuous view of humanity .

[@homerhat420]

Lmao. Your kind put us in this situation.😂

[@katherinez1234]

D.E.I. The Left's war on competence rears itself.

[@johnwang9914]

Well, obviously as the line is currently shut down, a more complete inspection is possible by sending a wheeled or tracked robot through the emptied pipe so issues that could not otherwise be detected will of course be found. Obviously when there is a pressurized flow, the concept of a robot probe for visual inspection would be severely impaired by the flow of the water itself. The question is whether or not the acoustic detectors which did not detect these problems can even be considered sufficient as more such otherwise undetected problems have been found is the question now. The acoustic detectors may have been state of the art fifty years ago but what are the practices now? Are there other approaches such as maybe a pulse reflectometer on the tension cables and steel pressure sleeve or will that cause galvanic corrosion. Has anyone even use an electrical pulse reflectometer to monitor a water pipe before, we use such techniques to evaluate power lines and communication lines including the early thicknet and thinnet shared common media coaxial ethernet but except with power lines, it is an unusual monitoring practice outside the lab despite how easy it is to implement.

[@HONDAVFRV4]

Not all the pipe has been inspected, only 2km of it. How much of the pipe that they can't get in to is also damaged. Funny thing is, only the other day she said the pipe was in good condition. She must mean from the point of view if you have a flat tire, well it is only flat at the bottom.

[@johnwang9914]

@@HONDAVFRV4 Yes, that is a problem, even when emptied, the ability to inspect the pipe is limited by cable length for both power, and controls/video so only a certain distance from the cut out could be inspected. I would presume that depending on what remediation would be needed at the other sites, the pipe may be cut open again and the opportunity to inspect more of the pipe will exist but that also means we may see this outage extended further as more problems are found. Hopefully, they would be contacting the robot's manufacturer to see if longer cables can be used or if wireless versions of such robots can be procured on short notice. I'll bet the robot's are custom made as a former classmate of mine did build similar probes for the city back in the early 90's. Of course, we still don't know if those other flaws would be mediated by just excavating and wrapping the pipe with additional tension reinforcements or if the segments would be cut out and a metal segment spliced in which would give another opportunity to deploy robots. Also, they have yet reported the severity of the flaws found, and whether these flaws were or weren't detected by the acoustic monitoring and reinforcement procedures. All the more reason for my question as to what are the current state of the art for monitoring such pipes and whether techniques such as a pulse reflectometer which is in use with our electrical grid and was albeit infrequently used with the old pre switch, pre twisted pair ethernets and of course is easy to do in the lab with a pulse generator and an oscilloscope might be something we could do even if it might be an ad-hoc lab set up (lab pulse generators might not have the needed power for the length and mass of pipe but those flaws should certainly send back reflections that could not be attributed to known fittings and bends of the pipe). Perhaps they should extrapolate the number of flaws found by the robot to the entire length of the pipe and estimate the repair duration to include those as yet undetected flaws but based on what's in thesw announcements so far, I can only surmise that there is significant potential for the repair duration to be greatly extended over the next week. Extrapolating the duration calculation may be better than repeatedly adding another five to seven days with each cutout allowing further inspections. On previous public announcement videos, I commented that a relatively small supplementary feeder line from the Bearspaw system to where it could connect with the existing Glenmore system might make up the difference between providing the 80% and the 100% that people expect and the military is already practiced in laying out such surface lines to do just that. Of course, it would be far more complicated as just changing the flow of water risks further breaks by introducing new stresses as we had with nearby parks being flooded after the break, but perhaps it's time to ask the military engineers if the closure of a few streets for a surface line could make up the difference. At least the weather would be amenable for such an effort. As I noted before, the public is quickly tiring of the conservation efforts and water use has been rising, if methods of extending the supply can't be found, the consequences will be districts that will have insufficient supply which requires not only replenishing the district reservoirs, but flushing and testing before the boil water restrictions can be lifted, just one district running low on it's reservoir could dramatically increase the amount of water required just to flush and re-pressurize, we could get ourselves into a downward spiral here.

[@TruthNothingButTheTruth]

Calgary is calling

[@DaKrawnik]

*busy signal*

[@Fivestar5000]

Amazing how dull these people are.

[@rosemarysimpson3542]

Well done ! Keep going and thanks for the best effort being put forward.

[@seanmills7586]

remember its about compliance yet again

[@HomeSecurity-id7zt]

This is why the Oilers are losing in the Stanley cup final. The stench of the bad door from Calgary is making the Oilers nauseous

[@HomeSecurity-id7zt]

Perhaps if our mayor wasn’t sending our tax dollars to her Hamas pals in Gaza, we would have water

[@gloriahernandez-t2o]

They fix every time this problem with bandages and now it is a big problem! More money more problems ! And more bla bla