Beulah Blowout Brings a Boil-Water Notice....

Certain residents of Beulah off of 9-Mile Road awoke Sunday morning to find the water wasn't working.

Several neighborhoods lost water after a PVC pipe buried 10 feet underground failed nearby.

I'm certain more than a few residents were late for Church services as a result.  Thankfully--most residents were back up and running with water by 3:00 in the afternoon.  Luckily-- we live in America where things like this are quickly fixed by responsive crews from utility service providers.  

In some parts of the world, something like this could take weeks (or months, or longer) to repair.  In many parts of the world--there is no running water in the first place.  Here, the lights go on when we flip the switch, and water comes out of the sink when the knob is twisted.  It's what we expect, and 99.9% of the time, it's what we get.

So yeah, we do live in a great country.

So what happenend with this situation in Beulah, then?

According to ECUA Board Member Vicki Campbell, it occurred where an 8" line was connected to a 16" line.  It appears, from the picture on the right provided to me by Vicki late Sunday afternoon, that this was newer pipe in an area adjacent to the latest expansion by NFCU on their sprawling Beulah campus location.  According to Vicki Campbell  "....[could be] PVC pipe failure, hard to say.  Could have been installed in a bind.  I'm sure they will get to the bottom of it.  Shouldn't be age as it appears to be fairly newer pipe.  Boil water for 48 hours."

It will be interesting to know precisely how this happened.  I'll certainly post the reasons once I get them from ECUA.  Meanwhile--I thanked Vicki profusely for the quick action and response of the ECUA crews to get us back up and running!