Sosua Waterline Imploded

Ken

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From today's Sosua News:


According to a reliable source, the large water tube which provides Sos?a of water, has been pinched in some places by implosion. What happened.

Because of a necessary repair of the main pump in Puerto Plata the water supply had to be shut down temporarily. But since they suddenly turned off the supply a massive vacuum occurred which caused an implosion of the thick wall of the pipe. The water still runs through, but there is no pressure. A water tube of this thickness and longitude you can not just close with a smack. Now they have dug a large hole at the traffic lights opposite the Texaco petrol station to access the water tube. With a robot they now go into the tube in order to figure out where the pipe (almost) imploded. That the tube imploded in some places is almost for sure. But they don't know where. It is a 22 miles long water tube.
 
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Oops...

Crazy that if they had just shut the valve down slowly(or maybe in the middle of the night) it could have been avoided, or if they opened a valve to let air in to fill the vacuum. Water has some serious momentum, esp in that volume.
 

wrecksum

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So that's what that great excavation is. I was wondering.

Let's hope it's not for too long.--Makes driving even more fun than usual...
 

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According to a reliable source, the large water tube which provides Sos?a of water, has been pinched in some places by implosion. What happened.
Because of a necessary repair of the main pump in Puerto Plata the water supply had to be shut down temporarily. But since they suddenly turned off the supply a massive vacuum occurred which caused an implosion of the thick wall of the pipe. The water still runs through, but there is no pressure. A water tube of this thickness and longitude you can not just close with a smack. Now they have dug a large hole at the traffic lights opposite the Texaco petrol station to access the water tube. With a robot they now go into the tube in order to figure out where the pipe (almost) imploded. That the tube imploded in some places is almost for sure. But they don't know where. It is a 22 miles long water tube.

translated, corrected and edited by ryan lochte.
shakes head
 

malko

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When water tubes exploded here ( if there happens to be water tubes ), u know whaf happens ???
Drum rolling... 92.5% of the time, nothing. Cos there s no water. Send a camera down?? Wow sosua seems to be modern place.
Here they get a bjnch of haitiens to tear up whatever s on top. Earth, road, tiles.....whatever.
 

belgiank

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I heard they told a tiny underage Haitian hooker to tell a fat nueva yolker she would do it for free if he could catch her...

didn't work... he got stuck at the entrance... and it took loads of vaseline and W40 to free the girl... they are still looking for his towel

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Criss Colon

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We may have been here too long!!!
We are starting to talk about "Haitianos" like "Dominicanos"!!!!!
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This looks like a job for:



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One thing about that line. If it imploded by shutting off a valve, they better be careful open the valve when they repair the line. I know that even in small systems, they will pour concrete buttresses at any right angle to prevent the pipes from blowing apart. If they go and send tons of water shooting down a 20 mile pipe at 40MPH all of a sudden, it will be like a giant battering ram when it meets some resistance like a reduction fitting or a sharp angle.
 

zoomzx11

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sounds like what is called water hammer in the fire department. No one slams valves shut on large volume of water, at least not twice. I have seen water hammer blow up hotel fire pumps when a valve is slammed open. 22 miles, eh. seems like they could just look for the big puddle to find the bust location.