News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
A public works crew brought in a sewer truck to suck away water from a leaking pipe.
A City of Sisters public works crew spent a couple of days last week hunting for and repairing a leak in a water pipe serving businesses on Cascade Avenue.
It's important to find the leaks so that they don't waste resources - or turn into burst pipes and floods.
Last summer, a burst pipe along Pine Street sent a river of water gushing into the Sisters Industrial Park, and only quick thinking by business owners and their employees - and help from Sisters firefighters pumping water - staved off flooding of business buildings.
But Sisters water pipes that date back to the 1960s and earlier are... eccentric.
Paul Bertagna of the public works department said that after finding the leak, his crew discovered that the service line doesn't run straight to the street.
It zig-zags under a sidewalk, and the crew had to temporarily remove an awning post to get at it.
It's all in a day's work in a city that sprouted willy-nilly, and is now trying to act grown up.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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