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Winter never seems to be good for the water pipes. Every year we have some water line breaks. not being a water infrastructure friendly month. These were taken of a break in 2006 and show a standard method of fixing a break caused by shifting soil.
Some pictures of the break.

• The size of the hole.
• The break in the pipe.

Getting the pipe ready for a 16"long stainless steel clamp.
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On February 17 th , started with a water line break at the water treatment plant in the morning and just before noon. It was reported
a water main break on the corner of 2nd Street and Park Street, on the south end of town. Luck had it Lange's Trenching was able to come over to help out.
With the weather being a fridged -17 degrees below zero with a wind chill of -30 below. They worked until after dark geting it fixed
When the valves connector cracked it blew the valve off the end of the pipe.

• Digging the hole
• Finding the problem avoiding cutting of phone wires
• Old stuff out ,adding rock base for new valve
• The new main shut off valves
• Putting the valve in
• Showing the cracks in the valves