blackblitz

So what is next? As you said, no more landmines, but what will you, and in conjunction the rats, do now?

Reek? Could smell it a mile away

Hi, I am with the company who just finished a water main leak detection survey in flint. Your long term solution of replacing the water mains will never happen, and is not viable. Even with no delays, it would take over 90 years to properly replace the pipe, even at 110% the average replace rate.

A lot of your solutions in this thread are not viable, and would never work in the real world.

about 50% of the city disregarding downtown is 8-12 inch Cast Iron pipe. the problem with slip lining is that all of the house / business service corps, and all valves would need to be redrilled into the slip lining, which just in downtown is 300+ corps / valves. It would be too much of an undertaking, and would have the same timeline as complete replacement, with similar costs.

They are currently building a new transmission main that would come directly from Lake Huron, rather than take Detroit's water.

The main issue with this group, and others of the same, is that they are focusing on too large of goals, and thinking the main problem is Lead. The bottom line is the problem is more than just lead. Lead isn't the worst thing in the Flint water system, the system is the worst thing.

*Edited for correctness, I wrote this in a hurry

Copy-pasting my reply below

I am with the company who just finished a water main leak detection survey in flint. The long term solution of replacing the water mains will never happen, and is not viable. Even with no delays, it would take over 90 years to properly replace the pipe, even at 110% the average replace rate.

They are currently building a new transmission main that would come directly from Lake Huron, rather than take Detroit's water.

And the Flint River will never be a proper water source. It would need to essentially be drained and completely cleaned from the bottom up.