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Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek says the city is committed to a plan to restore water services in early July but cautions it is possible there could be further delays.
Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek says the city is committed to a plan to restore water services in early July but cautions it is possible there could be further delays.
"We at the city are doing everything possible to get us to the July 5 target date to get us back to normal flow of water," Gondek said in an update Thursday morning.
The city is "aiming for the low end" of the three-to-five-week timeline of water main repairs.
In an afternoon update, Gondek said work replacing pipe segments with hot spots is about halfway done.
The original break is fixed. The plan was to remove an additional five weak sections of the feeder main but one is placed on a slope, so workers are reinforcing it instead.
“We are not cutting the pipe out, we are preparing to form a concrete box around it,” said Michael Thompson with City of Calgary infrastructure services.
The city says the reinforced concrete feeder main installed in 1975 was deemed “good” quality before it broke.
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