News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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.
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