Despite concerns over customer confusion, the Department of Water and Power board Thursday recommended switching the city's outdoor watering limit to a staggered three-day-a-week schedule aimed at relieving pressure on the aging pipe system. Under the new rules, residents living at odd-numbered addresses will be allowed to water lawns for 8 minutes a day on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Even-numbered homes can water on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
ORANGE -- It will cost up to half a million dollars to clean up the heating systems and substandard underground pipes that are in violation of state codes at three public schools, and the state wants the work done a lot sooner than town and school officials planned. About $250,000 of that estimate is based on replacing and refitting underground pipes at Mary L. Tracy and Race Brook schools; the total bill at Turkey Hill School is expected to be several hundred thousand dollars.
For the New York Jets, it's all about pressure. Pressure busts pipes. In football, pressure can bust quarterbacks.
PORTLAND -- They are poetry in full-court pressure. Hell on painted toenails. Relentless as the midnight wind that keeps freezing our pipes into the first week of March.
The water lines running into Lillian Ehrhardt's Lovejoy neighborhood home were installed three decades before she was born. Ehrhardt will turn 84 in February, so the aging water pipes have braved more than a century of fierce freeze-and-thaw cycles.
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Perhaps not since James Anderson Bailey and P.T. Barnum have there been such good salesmen. Missouri coach Mike Anderson plays off his former mentor, Nolan Richardson, by using pressure defense. And he sells it. ("I don't think anyone presses like we do," said Anderson after his team's win over Clemson.) The Mizzou sports information office leads its releases with the label, "The Fastest 40 Minutes in Basketball." Even the players sell the defense. "Pressure busts pipes," said Tiger guard Zaire Taylor.
SAN BRUNO, Calif. - An ominous theme has emerged from the wreckage of a deadly pipeline explosion in California: There are thousands of pipes just like it nationwide. Utilities have been under pressure for years to better inspect and replace aging gas pipes - many of them laid years before the suburbs expanded over them and now are at risk of leaking or erupting.
The water pressure in our house has dwindled over the years to a point where we sometimes get only dribbles from shower heads. We've cleaned shower heads with little improvement. The local water authority says pressure to the house is fine. Any ideas? Start by cleaning all the shower heads and faucet aerators in the house (soaking them overnight in a 50-50 solution of vinegar and water is a good way to remove accumulated minerals that could be clogging water outlets). Also check the main water valve and valves to various fixtures to make sure they are fully open.
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