A 15-foot geyser of water has been soaking a field in front of homes near Cherry and Enid streets for several weeks. And neighbors are concerned.
“I talked to the city, and they said they had to order something or other to fix it,” said one neighbor, Melvin Brewer.
The city’s plan is to get started on the repairs Monday morning, said George Kingston, assistant public works director over utility services.
“It’s so old that they don’t stock the parts to fix it,” he said. “We had to have something fabricated to fix it.”
Kingston said the water also couldn’t be shut off to that pipe in the meantime because the valves are so old they can’t be closed.
Residents in the area can expect their water to be shut off for as much as half a day when the repairs begin.
“It could be they’ll be without water half a day, easily,” he said. “It’s one of those things we don’t really know until they get in the middle of it.”
However, water pressure to the neighborhood doesn’t seem to have been affected.
Brewer said he hasn’t noticed an appreciable difference in his pressure.
Kingston said the part being fabricated is not inexpensive, and usually the older parts they must fabricate are done on an incidental basis.
“The cost of having parts fabricated is rather prohibitive,” he said. “If we have it made and never need it, it hurts our budget.”
Reach Wendy Burton at (918) 684-2926 or wburton @muskogeephoenix.com.
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September 28, 2012
City to repair geyser Monday
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