As if the borough’s Public Works Department wasn’t busy enough last week with the damaged sewage outfall line, the crew was pressed into evening work to repair a broken water main on St. Michaels Street.
The ductile iron pipe on the hill above City Market probably was 40 to 50 years old, said Public Works Director Tom Wetor. “The stuff was supposed to last 60 years,” he said, but poor installation likely led to deterioration of the pipe and the break.
A lot of utility pipe was buried around town and throughout Alaska during the heavy flow of state oil dollars to communities in the 1970s and ea...
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