Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Globe, Regional EPA Chief John DeVillars said the agency is "aggressively working with communities along the Charles to systematically identify and remove sewer connections to storm drains." The Weld boathouse on Memorial Drive closed for a number of days this summer because of reports that a broken pipe in Newton spilled raw sewage into the river...
Construction crews renovating the future home of Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) cut into a gas pipe yesterday afternoon, forcing an evacuation of the building...
Workers in the basement of the recently-christened Burke-McCoy Hall began to smell gas around 2:35 p.m. after they cut into a "charged" pipe they were told was empty, said Ken Trecartin, the construction superintendent...
According to HSA General Manager Richard M. Olken '67, the construction workers were cutting the correct pipe when the leak occurred, but a Commonwealth Gas employee, sent to disconnect the building's gas before construction began in that area, had shut off the wrong valve...
...call from the construction chief about 3 because he needed to confirm absolutely that we had gotten the gas company to say 'It's our problem,'" Olken said. "There are two pipes feeding in, one that we just put in and one older one, and the new pipe was incorrectly shut...