Wastewater Explorer Podcast 28 - Water Main Break A Rec 050626
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Hello and welcome to the GLWA Water Explorers podcast. I am your host, Sherry Gee, and today we're going to talk about a main break that occurred in March of 2026 on a 48 -inch water transmission main in Oakland County. Now the same pipe br…
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1:12Fejezet 2: Pete, what did you feel when you heard about this break? 113s · Speaker 2
Pete, what did you feel when you heard about this break? Similar to what Anthony had just said, I believe when I got the call, it was, okay, the one thing that couldn't happen during our 42 -inch water main replacement project just happened…
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3:06Fejezet 3: The main that was broke, right, the 48 -inch, 14 -mile, some actuators, electrical actuators had to be replaced. 74s · Speaker 6
The main that was broke, right, the 48 -inch, 14 -mile, some actuators, electrical actuators had to be replaced. So we had to do new controls and wiring and stuff like that. So we get involved in the replacing of that type of stuff. So at H…
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4:21Fejezet 4: Okay. We're going to hear from Tom Hall, Director of Operations and Resiliency. 103s · Speaker 2
Okay. We're going to hear from Tom Hall, Director of Operations and Resiliency. Tom, when did you hear about the break and what were your feelings when you heard that? Concerning the 14 mile break, back to that question, this is my fourth i…
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6:04Fejezet 5: you know, was it people hurt? 90s · Speaker 8
you know, was it people hurt? Or did they walk away from it? You know, it was in a low -lying area where the water was getting away from. From that standpoint, there was a lot of swimming pools in that area. They got filled. Not normally th…
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7:34Fejezet 6: Correct. Okay. 73s · Speaker 3
Correct. Okay. And what was the atmosphere like? Were you the first one on scene? Who did you talk to? From a GLWA standpoint, I was first on scene. So it was really just... Talking to the police out there, making sure everything was blocke…
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8:48Fejezet 7: So at the time where the. 71s · Speaker 4
So at the time where the... 42 -inch replacement project was at was we were getting down to the east side of the connection for that project just west of M5. And when we had some work going on on that eastern side of the project, we had to …
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10:00Fejezet 8: of the 42 that was serving our member partners. 66s · Speaker 3
of the 42 that was serving our member partners. And so we went into a full emergency EOC and working, as Mr. Troy was saying, with our member partners to be able to get emergency connections open and get isolation and then bring on a Hagert…
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11:06Fejezet 9: I was going to reiterate what Pete said. 291s · Speaker 2
I was going to reiterate what Pete said. typically in this type of situation with the station being dialed. And because time is of the essence, you already want personnel there to anticipate any problems that could arise as opposed to waiti…
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15:57Fejezet 10: To add to that, the third aspect of it is coordinating with an active project that we have going on too. 76s · Speaker 6
To add to that, the third aspect of it is coordinating with an active project that we have going on too. So you're bringing on a station. So first, you're isolating a water main break. And then you got to bring back on the station. And then…
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17:14Fejezet 11: Correct. Yeah, like most situations, these are not, hey, turn a valve and five, ten minutes is open or closed. 243s · Speaker 7
Correct. Yeah, like most situations, these are not, hey, turn a valve and five, ten minutes is open or closed. No, these are fairly large valves that take a significant amount of time. Tom? I guess now would be the question is that versus..…
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I'm not sure if you want to consider it going well, but something that was proven through our maintenance and repair group and probably I don't know if we discussed it yet or not was. We were actually already on an emergency situation with …
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So just another example of the great people at GLWA. Yes.