Traffic is being re-routed after a water main break in the 700 block of Massachusetts street.
The southbound lane in the 700 block of Massachusetts has been shut down since early Friday morning following a water main break, according to Mike Lawless, assistant utilities director for the city of Lawrence.
Traffic is being re-routed at the Massachusetts Street intersections at both Sixth and Eighth streets.
Lawless said a leak in a fire line midway down the 700 block of Massachusetts street was the cause of Friday's problems. The lane was still closed Friday evening.
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KiferGhost 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Infrastructure crumbling while our commissioners pad pockets.
KansasConscience 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Same thing is happening around you own home due to the drought.
KiferGhost 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Wasn't aware that downtown was effected by the drought like a yard.
Smarmy_Schoolmarm 4 months, 3 weeks ago
What do you think is under downtown KiferGhost?
KiferGhost 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Well something along the lines of the picture below. The wealthy Boston Masons built an underground structure to hide their treasure, it was what Quantrill was looking for when he sacked the town. Compton bought it and had it boarded up all this time because he was searching for the treasure but some think he didn't use the special specs in the correct way and actually it was over on 9th and NH where he is building a deep hole to find it there. Fritzel actually thinks it was where the Oread is now and then down the block. It explains why all the developers have taken a fancy to digging deep under all their projects.
http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/4810/590526-national_treasure.jpeg
Smarmy_Schoolmarm 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Well heck. I was interested until I saw Nicholas Cage was there.
KiferGhost 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Didn't notice with Diane Kruger behind him ;)
WilburM 4 months, 3 weeks ago
How many times does this have to happen before th4e city truly gets serious about infrastructure? It's not sexy, and there won't be some plaque to commemorate the commissioners who voted for repairs, but a long-term plan seems essential, as opposed to the West Side edifice complex that seems unstoppable. So we'll have BB courts, workout facilities, a huge KU presence, and continued water main breaks in older parts of town.
We need to stop, and think, especially as state dollars are almost certain to decrease. So far, only Mike Amyx is making any sense at all.
KiferGhost 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Perhaps Schumm is dealing with a little karma, wonder if the waterline break shut him down today?
bevy 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I was at his restaurant at noon, it wasn't terribly busy but not empty either. About as expected for this time of year.
Renaissance 4 months, 3 weeks ago
"it wasn't terribly busy"....largely because of the food quality, I'd imagine
kernal 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Show me a city with an infrastructure as old as ours that isn't having the same problems. It's about lack of money due to poor planning for this eventuality. The majority poo-pooed the warnings, so here we are. Deal with it.
KiferGhost 4 months, 3 weeks ago
But Lawrence should be rolling in the dough since sprawl supposedly adds so much more money to the tax base. Why are we cooking up scams to benefit our big developers instead of doing what a city is suppose to do?
KansasPerson 4 months, 3 weeks ago
According to the press release I saw this morning:
"The main break is on a 6-inch ductile iron, fire sprinkler line installed in 2001."
So, not an ancient water pipe.
kernal 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Press release? Where?
mikekt 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Ductile iron is a logical choice for a fire protection sprinkler line .
On the other hand, humans can mis engineer or mis install anything,........including ductile iron fire lines....and they don't usually charge extra for that one !.......but they might ?
11 years old is a little soon for corrosion to have totally damaged a ductile iron pipe unless maybe they have a broken sewer line with corrosive effluent in it, that is leaking onto this pipe or this was a non corrosion protected pipe, or one burried in very acidic soil or backfill !
Ductile iron is about twice as strong as traditional cast iron pipe & is quite flexible to bending loading forces
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