Water Main Breaks
Freezing temperatures, cast iron pipes behind Kamloops water main breaks
KAMLOOPS – The two recent water main breaks in Kamloops damaged some homes and had…
UPDATE: City crews work on two water main breaks in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – A City of Kamloops water main broke last evening downtown, reportedly due to…
Here’s the repair bill for Vernon’s broken water mains in 2014
VERNON - Fixing aging water mains in the City of Vernon last year didn’t come cheap. The Greater Vernon Water Utility, which operates the system, was billed approximately $370,000 by the city in 2014. That was for a total of 28 water main break repairs, or about $13,214 per break. That’s in addition to the...
The high cost of waiting to replace Vernon’s aging water system
VERNON - Costs of aging water pipes are beginning to pile up in the City of Vernon with 86 water main breaks in just the last three years—four of them this month. And the costs are not just in dollars and cents. Breaks on Nov. 25 left over 100 residents without water. Earlier in the year,...