The water department keeps having to dig up and replace main in front of my house - 2016, 2020, 2022. Its very disruptive as it means replacing concrete curb on the street, driveway apron, repaving large sections of the street, re-doing my tree lawn irrigation system, re-seeding tree lawn, etc. My tree lawn still isn't right from last time in 2020.
I have pictures and dates of all the repairs, and noticed they are oddly the SAME DAY for each break! I thought how could this be when my wife mentioned the bursts are in the vicinity of our fire hydrant, and fire department just did their flush tests. So I looked through my old text messages from the city and it seems they always test my hydrant around this time of year.
Could fire department doing annual hydrant flushing cause the water main to burst a couple days later? As an additional point of information, I did have a PRV and an expansion tank installed because during the home inspection my water pressure was 95 psi.
I have pictures and dates of all the repairs, and noticed they are oddly the SAME DAY for each break! I thought how could this be when my wife mentioned the bursts are in the vicinity of our fire hydrant, and fire department just did their flush tests. So I looked through my old text messages from the city and it seems they always test my hydrant around this time of year.
Could fire department doing annual hydrant flushing cause the water main to burst a couple days later? As an additional point of information, I did have a PRV and an expansion tank installed because during the home inspection my water pressure was 95 psi.
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