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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2009-03-18, Page 8' • r'`• :•••• ,z)mg,grobaw--75-- • A I Ir. Page 8 The Huron Expositor • March 18, 2009 • • News Water line replacement in Hensall u Jordan Baker installed in 1948. Burns said, "The 411111111111111M [waterniain] is at the end of its use7., .• . '.-y.m...;„--;.4-syt4.),,ii# After a series of watermain breaks ful life" -*: in Hensall, replacing a stretch of Since Dec. 12, there have been water line by Highway 4 may be the nine repairs to the main, seven since . only option. Council wants to wait. Jan. 21. Repairs were necessary be- • So said Steve Burns, of BM. Ross, - cause of seven failures in the main, in his address to council on Feb. 17, mostly as a.result of a bad joint. when he propostd an emergency Replacing what B.M. Ross propos- watermain replacement on London es as 425 metres of pipeline would Road inside the village. Council de- cost an estimated $350,000. Depu- cided to continue to repair the pipe ty-Mayor. Dave Johnston asked if when it breaks and will discuss re- replacing the pipe would be consid- placement at a later date. 9red a capital project. The pipe in question is part of the - *Burns told him it is not a capital original water system in Hensall, project. "This is very'much a repair of a watermain. True or False: you buy a 6/49 ticket every day, you'll likely win the jackpot sometime within the next 40 years. False: At a rate of one ticketper day, it could take anywhere from 1 Week to more than 80,000 years to win. (On average, it would take around 20,000 years to win.) . • Visit wwW.responsiblegarnbling.org for more information .aboutVyJjIJJ1nyour community.- . . - MIIIPS151111JE 6AIMPLIMIS. OMR out." The money would come not from Hensall residents, but from the. raunici- pality's reserve fund, which is paid into -by all 13.luewater rate- payers. • With the new • Exeter-Hensail pipeline planned over the last couple of years and re- cently going on line, Johnston won- dered why there was no anticipa- tion of problems bringing that new pipeline into a 60 -year-old system. Burns said replacing a watermain is in part driven by break history. "We don't want to change wa- termains just because they are old. There were no breaks in 2006 or 2007, but now we're seeing the breakdown of the system." - There was, some concern among councillors over the cost to replace the watermain. CAO Lori Wolfe said there is more than $400,000 in the reserve- fund and can cover the replacement, but Johnston said the cost could jump into the millions if problems con- tinue with other parts of the system that are 60 years old as well. About 2,000 metres of pipe are part of the original system. Mayor Bill Dowson said being con- cerned about replacing water pipes in the whole -town is "fear of the un- known." He said they simply don't know if cussion the other pipes will need replacing and can't_ speculate on what work may be done in the future. The. last repair was done on Feb. • 5 and the cost per repair, Burns said, is anywhere from $6,000-- to $10,000. Colin... George. Irvin wondered if perhaps the problems are behind. them. He said, as most of the prob- lems seem to be the joints, maybe, nowsome have been repaired, the watermain will be fine. . Watermains nowadays are ex- pected to last 70 to 80 years so the • 60 -year-old pipes may be ready to go, and the replacement should be •a long-term investment. - Coun. Jim Fergusson asked Burns - if repairs can be made before there • is a break in the. pipe. . Burni told council they can't re- ally "pre-empt" a repair since it usually just consists of capping the problem. 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