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Old 01-02-2025, 09:42 PM
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Exactly. Up north we had a sewer line break after 80 years of use. Apparently in sunny Florida they don’t last that long. 11 years for this line seems like a short time span to me.
Still don’t know that this was a break. Might have been, or might not be a line break but a washout resulting from rain water running along the outside of the manhole structure. Maybe we’ll hear more at the next PWAC or CDD10 meeting.
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