Maintenance worker Chance Weems removes a damaged copper service line leaking near the water main on Morning View Way last week. Photo Bob Wieland/Murphy Monitor
Within 24 hours, a tiny hole in a buried copper pipe sprayed more than 15,000 gallons of water into the dirt 4 feet below the sidewalk in a Murphy neighborhood.
Once the leak was detected, it took more than two hours for a four-man crew from the Murphy Public Works Department to dig down and fix it.
The aging copper service lines that connect water mains with meters are a big reason that Murphy lost 13% of water in the municipal system, more than 168 million gallons, Public Works Director Donald Reese says.
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