A water main break at the terminal prolonged the recovery.
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A water main breaks somewhere in America once every two minutes.
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The first time, a burst water main caused a months-long shutdown.
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The subway houses a water main, as well as fiber optic cables.
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"We used to go through a water main like snakes," Bassem said.
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And at 51D, two states, MA and IN, create a water MAIN.
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The Buffalo area saw more than 1,400 water main breaks in 2014 alone.
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Flint is under a boil-water advisory after a Tuesday water main break.
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A major water main broke, and the flooding washed out a sewer line.
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Some of the water main breaks have caused massive damage to surrounding areas.
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Each year, according to the Civil Engineers, there are 28500,6900 water main breaks.
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Baltimore helps its residents by maintaining an interactive map reporting water main breaks.
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In Michigan, water main breaks aren't unusual, although they're more common in winter.
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Due to a water main break at #JFK Terminal 4 there are flight delays.
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Every year, there are more than 28503,22019 water main breaks across the United States.
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The water main break drove water into the subway system around 4:0003 a.m.
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It formed near a newly installed water main, city officials said at the time.
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"It's tough to say what's the ideal age" for a water main, he said.
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The cause was soon attributed to a water main broken in a loading dock area.
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The city says 44 percent of water main breaks happen in December, January and February.
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It may take up to eight hours to fix the broken water main, Turner said.
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Blaming aging infrastructure for the incident, Turner said the water main was 35 years old.
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Officials defend the city's infrastructure maintenance, in part by measuring water main breaks another way.
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Users blamed the Suez unit for water main breaks, poor maintenance and slow billing operations.
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We have two choices: adopt a federal capital budget, or sit by and watch the American infrastructure crumble bridge by bridge, pipeline by pipeline, water main by water main, and watch us fall behind economically because of an inadequate electrical power grid and insufficient broadband.
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But most water main breaks do not cause widespread delays on streets or in subway tunnels.
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The water main was shut off by the city Department of Environmental Protection around 9 a.m.
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Overleveraged finances coupled with a nearby water main break causing costly damage forced it to close.
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SWAT officers had severed a water main while tearing down a wall to rescue hostages, officials said.
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Friday's 7.1-magnitude quake, centered near Ridgecrest, led to gas leaks, building fires and water main breaks.
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"This is the worst water main break I've ever seen," a Philadelphia Water Department spokesperson told FOX29 .
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The Environmental Protection Department has recorded more than 400 water main breaks nearly every year since 1998.
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A huge sinkhole opened on a busy Ottawa street this morning due to a water main break.
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She later said that besides a water main break, most of the damage appeared to be cosmetic.
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The crews are busy this time of year because this is the season for water main breaks.
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To add mishap to misery, a water main burst in the ceiling of Terminal 4 on Jan.
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The report found that 240,000 water main breaks occur every year, wasting 2 trillion gallons of drinking water.
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Taxpayers and ratepayers end up footing the bill: America's approximately 6900,2628 water main breaks cost $28503 billion annually.
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The American Society of Civil Engineers said the country has an estimated 240,53 water main breaks each year.
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On average, at least one water main still erupts each day, though only a few draw much attention.
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Making matters worse is that a water main broke right after the earthquake, flooding the bottom layers of wreckage.
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Images of the site where the water main broke showed an intersection completely ripped apart with pipes jutting out.
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The impact pushed my car onto the sidewalk, through a water main, into the sign for a Taco Bell.
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The floor is uneven, there are pillars, and the water main, which was installed in the 1950s, leaks constantly.
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Blaming aging infrastructure for the incident, Mayor Sylvester Turner said the 96-inch water main was 35 years old.
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We cannot keep pushing off repairs until emergencies hit, whether water main breaks or bridge collapses or train derailments.
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But there are an estimated 240,000 water main breaks every year in the U.S., wasting valuable drinking water supplies.
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Both quakes caused damage Both of the quakes caused damage to communities, including fires, power outages and water main breaks.
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Two water main breaks in January caused major subway delays, as did two breaks last year and one in 2018.
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Also on Friday, the city of Flint lifted a boil-water advisory issued after a February 9 water main break.
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This system is hooked into the water main, with horizontal irrigation along the roof and above and below the windows.
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Philadelphia Water Department spokesman John DiGiulio says the intersection where the water main burst would remain closed until work is finished.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer reports repairs will include wider excavation of a sink hole that opened up after the water main break.
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The average New York water main is 262 years old; if it were a person, you would call it a Boomer.
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You'll be ready for a real emergency such as your car getting totaled, a burst water main, or losing your job.
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Then on Sunday, the broken water main sent people fleeing in a partial evacuation and left bags and suitcases in water.
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So, when you are stuck in traffic, your water main breaks or your power goes out, don't say you weren't forewarned.
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Back in Flint, a broken water main had placed parts of the city under a boil-water notice on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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The city spends about $224 million a year to replace the pipes, but at least one water main still erupts each day.
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The workers typically dig two holes: one at the water main in the street, and another between the curb and the sidewalk.
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ET: Ottawa officials still can't determine why the water main suddenly broke but they don't think it was due to light rail.
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Sometimes test centers will lose power, have a gas leak or be flooded following a water main break, resulting in a cancellation.
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A reminder of the brittle condition of the city's infrastructure has played out in several water main breaks in the last month.
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Weather apparently caused the water main break, he said, but the investigation will seek to determine why it was not weather protected.
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And at Oakland University in suburban Detroit, a library was closed Friday because of a water main break that flooded the building.
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A water main failure was said to be responsible for a much smaller sinkhole that formed several blocks to the east in 2014.
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In West Virginia, the Wirt County school district had to close because of a water main burst, Superintendent Mary Jane Pope-Albin said.
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Flooding from a water main break forced a temporary suspension of some flights at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport this weekend.
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Roel Huinink, the president and chief executive of the Schiphol Group subsidiary that owns the terminal, said the water main had been repaired.
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Last spring, the city also announced a plan to help residents replace lead pipes connecting the city's water main to residential plumbing systems.
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The water main disaster happened Sunday afternoon in Terminal 4 -- "the major gateway for international arrivals at JFK airport," the airport's website says.
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They've had to live with the windows open during the winter to air out the stink from a broken water main flooding their basement.
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"Due to a water shortage caused by a burst water main, we have had to stop production this afternoon," a spokeswoman for JLR said.
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Sometimes the perspective will shift to the first-person, letting you do things like flip switches or turn a water main with your hands.
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Water main breaks are becoming more common, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers, which estimated that there are about 2202,2628 each year.
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The crew was still there, putting a new copper service line in, threading it under the asphalt to the water main across the street.
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"Power outages and water main destruction would be unequivocally bad for Electric Power Authority and Water Authority bonds issued by the island," Gadlin said.
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Subway service on the A, C and D lines was suspended on Sunday morning after the second major water main break in a week.
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Now the New York airport is scrambling to clean up after a water main burst, sending customers fleeing into the 13-degree cold Sunday.
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A day after Monday's water main break, much of the area was back to normal, including the subway lines that the flooding had crippled.
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The reason soon became obvious: A stream of water from a broken water main was gushing down the gutter and into a storm drain.
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The drastic switch — as much as an 80-degree change in some cities, according to Fox News — could cause water main breaks and overflowing rivers.
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The sinkhole is 4-by-4 feet and is believed to be near a newly installed water main, according to a Palm Beach travel alert.
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There are 240,000 water main breaks across the country each year, and 6 billion gallons of treated water are lost each year to leaking pipes.
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The lines connect a building's plumbing system to the water main, and are one of the most common causes of elevated lead levels in water.
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Crowded trains each weekday carry more than 5 million people hardened by terror threats and track-dwelling rats, daylight assaults and diluvial water main breaks.
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On Sunday, just as there were signs that things were finally improving, a water main break in a terminal plunged the airport back into chaos.
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A water main break, the second in one week, flooded a New York City subway station and suspended service on several lines on Sunday morning.
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The city recorded 459 water main breaks in the last fiscal year, about 1.2 per day, though few were big enough to attract widespread attention.
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MD-185 SB between Jones Bridge and Manor Rd. Montgomery County, MD. All SB lanes are blocked by water main break and icy road conditions.
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Surrounding yourself in a castle of canned food and extra ammunition is just asking to have your entire stash flooded with a broken water main.
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The damage from the fall caused leaks in a water main and in multiple gas lines, though officials said those leaks had not reached dangerous levels.
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Wednesday, the city told the company to shut off its water because of concern that some water might have back-flowed into a city water main.
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The L train was shut down between Brooklyn and Manhattan as crews worked to fix a water main break near the Bedford Avenue Station in Williamsburg.
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According to depositions in UMG's later litigation with NBCUniversal, an accident in the warehouse space directly above UMG's tape vault resulted in a broken water main.
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The L train was briefly shut down between Brooklyn and Manhattan this morning because of a water main break, disrupting the commute for thousands of people.
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The city says 44 percent of water main breaks happen in December, January and February, when temperatures chill pipes at night and warm them by day.
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PHILADELPHIA – City officials say work to repair a 48-inch water main that burst and flooded a section of central Philadelphia&aposs streets could take several months.
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The next day, a water main broke in Terminal 4, the major arrival point for international travelers, flooding it and causing it to close for several hours.
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The town says utility crews will likely do exploratory excavation on Monday to determine the cause of the sinkhole, which opened near a newly installed water main.
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There were about 211 water main breaks for every 19923 miles of mains last year, according to Vincent Sapienza, the commissioner of the city's Department of Environmental Protection.
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It took a lot of man power to rescue a small dog trapped in a water main shaft on Monday in Miami, Florida — four firefighters to be exact.
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"We prepare for all types of occurrences, from the God-forbid active shooter to the typical water main break, to the ice day and snow day," he said.
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"We've had a rash of 17 water main breaks within a 64-day period, which I would characterize as an infrastructure crisis," Mayor Ravinder Bhalla said on Wednesday.
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Though the country still had that last 20 percent, trying to route a water main of web traffic through a drinking straw resulted in near-total connectivity failure.
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Morning commute disrupted: A water main break in New York shut down several subway lines today and flooded a swath of the Upper West Side around Lincoln Center.
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The crane itself was cut up and removed from the street by Sunday afternoon; some of the surrounding blocks remained closed as workers continued to repair water main leaks.
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Residents of the county, which has a population of about 80,500, were advised on Facebook to boil drinking and cooking water after water main breaks due to heavy rainfall.
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Seven hundred times a day, a water main breaks somewhere in the United States, and we are falling behind in providing broadband capability in many parts of the country.
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The tunnel itself, some 40 feet in length and five feet in diameter, looks like a water main; it narrows at one end before emptying into the silver sphere.
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Newark water service lines "are owned by individual property owners, from the water main in the street to the water meter in the home," according to the city website.
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" LAS VEGAS&apos MANDALAY BAY FLOODS AFTER WATER MAIN BREAK, DISPLACING 1,000 GUESTS We're told industry insiders shared the post between themselves, with one telling Page Six, "My jaw dropped.
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"Affected residents no longer need to boil their filtered water because testing did not reveal any bacteria during or after the repair of the water main break," the city said.
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We're pruning in early February in the residential streets around Jewel Avenue, because a water main will be renovated here and the heavy equipment will wreak havoc on overhanging branches.
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In January, a water main break flooded the 103rd Street station near Central Park, forcing the temporary suspension of service to large sections of the A, C and D lines.
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The water main broke near Fidelity and North Carolina streets and "water flowed to 610 South/Ship Channel Bridge" about two miles south of the break, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.
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The No. 1 subway line was inaccessible because of track maintenance, so she walked to the C train but was told service there was affected by the water main break.
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Any time something happened at a prison—a fight at 10:30 PM, a water main break, a riot, a sit-down, or God forbid somebody died—I'd get notified.
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Violent shaking also caused water-main breaks and knocked out power and communications to parts of Ridgecrest, home to about 27,000 people some 125 miles (200 km) northeast of Los Angeles.
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A. The consensus in Flint is now in favor of wholesale replacement of the lead service lines, which are pipes that bring drinking water from a water main into a home.
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And while those aren't offering quite the same level of protection that Phyn is promising with its ability to detect leaks directly from the water main, they also cost $800 less.
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Images from the rescue show Mr Changue's head sticking out of a hole filled with water and mud, which opened up because of a water main break, according to the racetrack.
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LaHood plans to investigate "all phases of the event" including preparation ahead of the storm, recovery operations after the water main leak, and baggage handling, according to a Port Authority statement.
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The city, in a written response to the state, said "blending is occurring" between the systems, most likely when pressure valves are opened during emergencies like fires and water main breaks.
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Over the 20-plus year relationship between SUEZ and Hoboken, the company has operated by the terms of the agreement, often contributing more than required to the water main repair fund.
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As airlines scrambled to get operations back to normal on Sunday, a water main break at the airport's Terminal 4, the departure point for many international flights, halted international arriving flights.
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Guests were treated to a surprise at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Tuesday, after a water main break led to major flooding on the Convention Center floor, ultimately displacing 1,000 people.
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Even before the water main break JFK was struggling to recover from Thursday's Winter Storm Grayson, which tore through the East Coast and caused a slew of flight cancellations and travel delays.
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There's been a water main break on your street, and as a result of this, they're going house to house to tell the neighborhood that your toilet is not going to flush.
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The water main broke near Fidelity and North Carolina streets and "water flowed to 610 South/Ship Channel Bridge" about two miles south of the break, near the Buffalo Bayou, Gonzalez said.
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Water is essential to sustain life, and yet it is often undervalued, even ignored, until there is a problem or crisis such as a water main break, contamination, or other safety threat.
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While the play requires no costume changes, Colin's skirt had to show a stain, supposedly from a water main break in Evy's district, because it is constantly referred to in the dialogue.
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The pumps in some tunnels, originally used in the construction of the Panama Canal, ran around the clock to keep underground streams and the occasional water main break from washing away the tracks.
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The quake also caused water main breaks and knocked out power and communications to parts of Ridgecrest, a city of about 27,000 that lies about 125 miles (19943 km) northeast of Los Angeles.
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Pinjobs and overturned vehicles, water main breaks, fires, slashing victims, pedestrians struck cars or trains, suicidal individuals on ledges (before or after jumping), people who have barricaded themselves inside structures, preferably with hostages.
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Gas leaks caused structure fires throughout Ridgecrest, residents reported water main breaks, and power and communications were out in some areas, according to Mark Ghilarducci, director of the Governors' Office of Emergency Management.
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Firefighters were delayed from doing more than monitoring the blaze at the Heidelberg Project site due to a succession of five non-working fire hydrants — possibly the result of ongoing water main repairs.
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City employees from all departments—the Auditor's Office, the Education Department, and even HR employees—are re-tasked by PBEM, and sent out on bicycles, mapping water main leaks and cracks in intersections.
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The water main break caused flooding in the airport's Terminal 4 baggage claim, where piles of luggage were left amid the chaos unfolding at the airport due to the storm, according to CNN.
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Those pipes must carry more than 216 billion gallons of water per day to households and businesses, yet there are an estimated 240,000 water main breaks per year nationwide, the group has found.
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In a news conference on Sunday evening, Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority, said that he was ordering an investigation of the water main break and the continuing flight problems.
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After a recent water main break closed part of the street, Kate Chura, the district's executive director, hired workers to pick up food scraps from businesses rather than wait for regular trash service.
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There's a 1.43-foot-wide sinkhole outside President Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, apparently caused by a recently installed water main, according to a Palm Beach traffic alert issue Monday.
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The construction firm that damaged a 42-inch (107 cm) water main on Wednesday, forcing water to be shut down so crews could repair it, was issued a citation, Trantalis told a news conference.
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Yet when it comes to water, most still take it for granted, until there is a problem such as a water main break, or worse, a crisis such as the one in Flint, Michigan.
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"It's time to make up for decades of underinvestment that today is evident in everything from bone-rattling potholes and endless traffic gridlock, to deadly train derailments and destructive water main breaks," he said.
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"Its time to make up for decades of underinvestment that today is evident in everything from bone-rattling potholes and endless traffic gridlock, to deadly train derailments and destructive water main breaks," he said.
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If it's not tended to, upgraded and replaced, we're going to see a lot more water main breaks, gas explosions and other breakdowns that have a huge effect not just underground but above ground.
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The water main break occurred a short block from the Lincoln Plaza Tower at 44 West 62nd Street, which has high-end units currently on the market for asking prices up to $5 million.
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That's leading to water-main breaks across the United States and the loss of two trillion gallons a year of drinking water, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers' 11.053 Infrastructure Report Card.
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Friday: Gas leaks caused structure fires throughout Ridgecrest, residents reported water main breaks, and the power and communications were out in some areas, according to Mark Ghilarducci, director of the Governors' Office of Emergency Management.
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A JLR spokeswoman had said the company had closed its Solihull site, near Birmingham, because of a water shortage caused by a burst water main and she was unable to say when it would reopen.
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A "dig once" ordinance passed in 2014 requires the city to lay its own fiber any time a road is dug up, whether its for a street repair, water main break, or power line renovations.
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Cover image: A 36-inch water main break that crumbled pavement, sending thousands of gallons of water onto a major city street, rests uncovered as construction crews attempt to repair it in Chicago on Jan.
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Stop the Assad government from bombing markets and bridges, and its Russian allies from bombing civilian infrastructure, as happened recently when a Russian airstrike reportedly hit a water main, cutting off water for the entire city.
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A water main break caused a major disruption on the L train subway line on Wednesday, forcing transit officials to briefly shut service between Brooklyn and Manhattan and upending the morning commute for thousands of people.
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In the months that followed, though, the subway's many underlying problems burst open like a broken water main, and angry riders made a point of affixing the hashtag #CuomosMTA to their proliferating complaints on social media.
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When the state first alerted Newark about its high lead levels, city officials said the cause was about 15,000 lead service lines — pipes that connect the city's water main to plumbing systems in houses and buildings.
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The existing plant often violates E.P.A. and D.E.C. [Department of Environmental Conservation] standards — Betsy Montgomery, Pawling, N.Y. I have been fortunate never to live in a neighborhood with a burst water main or worse, a sinkhole.
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Despite the ease with which we are accustomed to accessing water in the U.S., there are more than 750 water main breaks a day, and over 1 million miles of aging lead pipes in the country.
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Welkin Mechanical did not have enough equipment to finish the work, so it borrowed some from a third company that was hired to fix drains, National Water Main Cleaning, which did not donate to Mr. Cuomo.
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Wu Fongfa, a cake shop manager in Tainan, said she was awakened by a loud noise, followed by shaking so intense that it ruptured the water main outside her building, flooding the street in calf-deep water.
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A water main break at John F. Kennedy International Airport Sunday forced officials to evacuate a terminal and cancel flights — escalating a series of blunders for the airport following closures and cancellations due to Thursday's massive storm.
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The location on lower Fifth Avenue is about two blocks from where a major water main ruptured in January 1998, which caused a massive sinkhole and then a gas line to burst, spewing fire into the air.
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A water main break early on Monday morning shut down several New York City subway lines and flooded a swath of the Upper West Side around Lincoln Center just before the start of the morning rush hour.
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There are an estimated 6900,2628 water main breaks per year in the United States—and in some places, like in Alaska, there are entire communities that don't even have access to tap water and a flushed toilet.
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According to the Palm Beach Daily News, residents were alerted to the 4-foot by 223-foot hole near a new water main on Southern Boulevard via email, and a traffic alert was also posted on social media.
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"Different Views" contains selections from his "Gas and Water Plate Series" and "Pavement Series," close-ups of gas valves and water main covers, spray-painted utility markings and patterns and textures on the streets and sidewalks of the Bronx.
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" Further down the street, however, Ian Hutchinson, 63, who is currently unemployed, asked what the protesters would do "when the roots of the trees fracture a water main or electric, gas or telephone — they'll be complaining to the council.
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A day after the 8-foot diameter water main pipe burst in east Houston, much of the city remains under a boil-water notice and restaurants without water were ordered to cease operations immediately by the city's health department.
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"Maintenance men were trying to get into the apartment because they noticed that the water usage was non-existent for some time, so they suspected that there was some type of issue with the water main," the officer explains.
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"The water came up to here," he said, denoting a point just above two underground parking levels flooded by the water main break on Monday morning, one that made this neighborhood between Columbus Circle and Lincoln Center resemble Venice.
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As aviation crews at South Carolina's busiest , Charleston International Airport, struggled to clear runways of snow and ice so they could be reopened, in New England water main breaks, frozen hydrants and burst pipes created new problems for officials.
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In a New York Times article, he once described having to close the flower shop early because of a water main break; in a later article, his father described fending off people who wanted to use his flower pots as toilets.
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The City of Hoboken filed a lawsuit against SUEZ that said the construction of the chamber was the main cause of the water main breaks and SUEZ needed to turn over all of their internal documents related to Hoboken's water infrastructure.
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There's a caveat emptor here: Because the neighborhood is so old, there is constant infrastructure repair (a water-main project near Washington Square Park isn't expected to be completed until 2020), and because it is desirable, buildings rise wherever preservationists allow.
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Esty, a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, pointed to the recent water main break at New York's John F. Kennedy airport that caused flooding in the facility and delayed flights as an example of the country's crumbling infrastructure.
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Environmental Protection officials said the department repaired 21 water-main breaks in January, including one in Lower Manhattan that disrupted rush-hour subway service and another on the West Side that snarled traffic and left nearby buildings without water for hours.
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Pallash argues that the federal government has a responsibility in the Constitution to regulate interstate commerce, and he said the US infrastructure backlog is costing Americans money each day if they sit in traffic or a water main break floods their homes.
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Image: Raegan Medgie/TwitterHere's a bit of schadenfreude for those of us who can't afford to breathe in New York's Upper West Side: A water main break last night created a sinkhole, and that sinkhole swallow an entire BMW worth around $55,000*.
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A police officer, for example, could use the police department's Facebook page to send an alert to its followers about everyday disruptions like fog, water-main breaks or traffic closures — or about more threatening emergencies like a hurricane, fire or active shooter.
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Flooding from a water main break forced the temporary suspension of some flights at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday, adding to the misery of travelers after a winter storm canceled or delayed hundreds of flights in recent days.
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When I stopped running, the employees of the Taco Bell approached me with great gratitude, explaining that because of the broken water main they would get a paid day off of work, and encouraged me to come back for free nachos whenever I liked.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Flooding from a water main break forced the temporary suspension of some flights at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday, adding to the misery of travelers after a winter storm canceled or delayed hundreds of flights in recent days.
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Water main breaks, fire and harsh rainstorms keep disaster cleanup services busy day to day, but when a natural disaster strikes, these companies are called on to help out anywhere in the country for weeks on end, tending to flooded basements and cleaning up debris.
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In Escanaba, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a water main had broken during the worst of the cold, sending water spewing onto a road, cutting water pressure in the city, and forcing workers to try to contain it behind a berm of snow in subzero temperatures.
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Aside from the two water main breaks in January that caused major delays, only twice in all of last year and once in 2018 was service affected by a ruptured pipe, according to figures from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state-controlled agency that runs the subways.
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One can envision machines like GPT-2 spewing superficially sensible gibberish, like a burst water main of babble, flooding the Internet with so much writing that it would soon drown out human voices, and then training on its own meaningless prose, like a cow chewing its cud.
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Customers install the Phyn Plus — which looks kind of like a glowing nuclear battery that attaches to your water main — directly into their plumbing system, where the device is able to monitor tiny changes in water pressure to track water usage and identify blockages, burst pipes, and leaks.
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That month the plumbing in the house broke down and I remember a team of five plumbers digging around in the back yard, simply trying to locate the water main, while I sat upstairs trying to turn out words fast enough to earn more than their combined hourly rate.
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NEW YORK, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Flooding due to a water main break forced the suspension of international flight arrivals at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday, adding to the misery of travelers after a winter storm canceled or delayed hundreds of flights in recent days.
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Mattress company Casper, for instance, repurposed a BBC story as a Facebook ad promoting its product; a local plumbing company in Texas used a Dallas Morning News article about a water main break to promote its service; Facebook itself recently promoted an Ad Age article to hype its video offering.
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Our leaders say they're interested in fixing America's aging water infrastructure but they're unwilling to bring the resources to bear to revamp a system that has countless miles of lead pipes and an estimated 85033,000 water main breaks a year and leaking pipes that waste two trillion gallons of treated water.
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But much of the area's philanthropy today is directed to education, health and economic issues, in a city that faces deep pockets of poverty and problems including lack of heat in some schools last year and a water main break last month that left public housing residents without water for days.
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The pup — seen here in a video given to PEOPLE by the City of Miami Fire-Rescue — had fallen 6 to 8 feet inside a water main on Northwest 28th Street, and when workers from the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department couldn't get the pup out they called firefighters for help.
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But the mean winter season brought unseasonably cold to parts of Asia, such as Myanmar, where orphaned elephants had to be wrapped in knitted blankets; and to New York, where hundreds of flights were delayed and Kennedy Airport remained in disarray on Sunday after a water main burst and flooded a terminal.
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But the water main break also spotlighted the chronic problem lurking below the city's streets: the labyrinth of water mains — some of which are more than a century old and prone to leaks and cracks — train tunnels and other old equipment that make up one of the world's largest networks of subterranean infrastructure.
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Even before a water main broke and flooded much of Terminal 4 at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport early Sunday afternoon, the travel hub resembled a warzone, populated by blank-eyed employees and civilians, none of them quite sure what had happened over the past few days, and none of them happy about it.
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The inspection report came back with a list of big problems, including standing water in the basement; a deck not built to code; a connector from the outside water main to the inside plumbing that had been installed backward; and hookups for a washer and dryer, but no drain for the washer or vent for the dryer.
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Vincent Sapienza, the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, said there were 1503 water main breaks for every 100 miles of mains last year, the second lowest rate among large cities (Boston's rate was lower, at 4.1 per 100 miles of mains.) The national average is 22 breaks a year for every 23 miles of water mains, he said.
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Fire struck again early on Monday, September 23, this time engulfing the upper floor of the "You House" — permanently destroying the last remaining house that flanked the project's eastward-facing boundary of Mt. Elliott St. Firefighters were quick on the scene, but delayed from doing more than monitoring the blaze due to a succession of five non-working fire hydrants — possibly the result of water main repairs ongoing on the East side.
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