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UPT Nola experiencing another water main break this morning

Posted on 3/9/26 at 4:44 am
Posted by arseinclarse
Member since Apr 2007
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Posted on 3/9/26 at 4:44 am
Posted by lakeviewtiger
BC
Member since Jul 2005
2443 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 5:26 am to
Wonder what is happening in this stretch. Too much pressure in and old line?
Posted by Hangit
The Green Swamp
Member since Aug 2014
46281 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 5:28 am to
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Wonder what is happening in this stretch.


The pipe is supposed to stay closed, with all of the water on the inside.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
8606 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 5:30 am to
They blame it on “subsidence”. That’s code for “Democrats”.
Posted by sledgehammer
SWLA
Member since Oct 2020
6936 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 5:46 am to
I’m sure the most competent and well qualified people are on top of this problem.
Posted by Legion of Doom
Old Metry
Member since Jan 2018
5700 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 5:56 am to
Teedy was too busy with Vappie’s pipe to worry about the water pipes.
Posted by The Torch
DFW The Dub
Member since Aug 2014
28915 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 5:57 am to
But at least they got rid of those damned statues.
Posted by double d
Amarillo by morning
Member since Jun 2004
17116 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 6:05 am to
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Wonder what is happening in this stretch. Too much pressure in and old line?


Fix one leak, puts stress on another bad section. Until they change out all the ancient piping it will continue to happen.
Posted by jcaz
Laffy
Member since Aug 2014
19100 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 6:08 am to
New Orleans is on borrowed time.
This is not me hating, this is the fact that we have tried to ignore Mother Nature and hydrology for 300 years.
Posted by doublecutter
Member since Oct 2003
7103 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 6:09 am to
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But at least they got rid of those damned statues.


That’s right adjacent to to Marsalis Park, the renamed Palmer Park. Landrieu had to take the successionist Palmer’s name from the park and give it to a black man.

I’d like to put my foot up Landrieu’s arse.
Posted by Geauxldilocks
Member since Aug 2018
5838 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 6:15 am to
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Fix one leak, puts stress on another bad section. Until they change out all the ancient piping it will continue to happen.


Missed that window when FEMA gave the city everything post Katarina. Having squandered that away the city is in ruins waiting in the Pels and Saints to leave to cement its status as a failed 3rd world example for historians .
Posted by Swagga
504
Member since Dec 2009
19028 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 6:40 am to
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Having squandered that away the city is in ruins waiting in the Pels and Saints to leave to cement its status as a failed 3rd world example for historians .



I admire your ability to patrol every board on this site 24/7 just waiting to post this same comment every time.
Posted by geauxtigers87
Louisiana
Member since Mar 2011
27304 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 7:00 am to
Another lovely morning in Mogadishu..
Posted by RunninReb
Member since Feb 2023
442 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 7:06 am to
If you have the ability to leave Orleans Parish (at the very least) or New Orleans altogether, you should seriously consider it.

The city's infrastructure is now showing its cards after decades of mismanagement in planning for the inevitable: Deferred Maintenance.

There are zero resources to address this and more of the drains, etc will start to crack and break.

These are not one-off situations. it's coming for the entire city grid.
Posted by Craft
Member since Oct 2019
1233 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 7:22 am to
Looks like Katrina. New Orleans pipes are beyond fricked. This director of SWB just said everything is fricked and have no way of being proactive of this.
Posted by threeputt
God's Country
Member since Sep 2008
24797 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 7:23 am to
New Orleans: First city in America with an Opera House












And last city in America with a working sewerage system.
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
40676 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 7:42 am to
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Fix one leak, puts stress on another bad section. Until they change out all the ancient piping it will continue to happen.


Yes. And all the pipes in a particular area are probably about the same age / condition since they never replace pipes before they break.
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
40676 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 7:47 am to
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Missed that window when FEMA gave the city everything post Katarina


Given the scope and the general speed of government funding, most of this work should have happened during the Landrieu years.

And yet that clown was named Biden’s Infrastructure Czar
Posted by Akit1
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jul 2006
8289 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 7:56 am to
Don’t worry - top people are working on this. So it doesn’t happen for another 30 days.
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
11678 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 8:42 am to
If enough people leave, will that reduce the amount of water needed and the pressure needed to deliver that water?

Or is the infrastructure so leaky that above ground use of water won't matter, because the leaks are well established.

Years ago I think they were mentions the huge volume of water lost each and every day. If the water is underground, is some of it undermining the levees?
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