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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 26 > Aging water pipes are becoming more difficult to ignore

Aging water pipes are becoming more difficult to ignore

By Michael Cooper / The Bulletin
April 26, 2009

CHELAN, Wash. — It has been 2,000 years since the Romans built their aqueducts, and 200 years since Philadelphia began using cast-iron water mains. But the 6-inch-wide city pipe that still delivers drinking water to a block on Nixon Street here uses an even more primitive technology:....

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