Finally found it!
"the initial search began on what turned out to be the wrong side"
They were looking in the WRONG PLACE?
Gimme that map!
"Panel seeks test of gasket found near water main break" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff | July 15, 2010
An independent panel investigating the May water main break that disrupted service throughout Greater Boston has ordered tests of a rubber gasket found near the break and of a rusted bolt that may have been part of the metal coupling used to connect two 10-foot-wide pipes.
Two of the three members of the panel testified before a legislative committee yesterday, as part of hearings on the water main failure that will resume today....
Despite high interest in the investigation from residents and elected officials, the panel did not meet face-to-face until Tuesday, and only spoke by phone for the first time last week. Most questions posed by legislators yesterday received either tentative answers or none at all....
The panel remains hampered by the disappearance of the coupling, a 10-foot piece of metal....
During testimony, Zorica Pantic, the head of the panel, which was appointed by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, indicated that the MWRA was not expecting much cooperation from the manufacturer of the coupling, Victaulic. Legislators promised to use their clout to push the company, if needed....
A Victaulic spokesman, Eric Luftig, said the company has cooperated with the MWRA from the beginning and has continued to offer technical assistance. But the company cautions against isolating its product from other potential factors, including the design, the installation, and the application.
“This is most likely not a smoking-gun, one-answer situation,’’ he said....
--more--""Eureka! They’ve found the clamp; Buried piping may hold key to May’s water main break" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff | July 16, 2010
WESTON — It should have been like finding a 1,300-pound needle in a haystack. But it was never that easy.
So there was near euphoria yesterday afternoon when workers unearthed an elusive metal clamp that is considered key evidence in the May 1 pipe failure that crippled Greater Boston’s water system for three days, forcing up to 2 million people to boil their drinking water....
The two-month-long search for the mangled piece has taken on a life of its own, confounding state officials and the public alike. How could such a huge object simply disappear?
Workers, pounding away in the hot sun in a 40-foot-deep pit, found it at about 2 p.m. yesterday, just as the leaders of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority were testifying in front of a legislative oversight committee about the water pipe failure, explaining yet again that the missing coupling was thwarting their efforts to figure out what went wrong and saying they were ready to consider giving up the search....
That is ALWAYS when you find it!
Fred Laskey, executive director of the water authority, said the MWRA would use its subpoena power to demand documents from the company that produced the coupling, Victaulic. Laskey said the company has not turned over the latest documents the authority has requested, including information gathered by the company’s employees who were on the site during installation in 2002.
A Victaulic spokesman said earlier this week that the company has cooperated from the start.
In the end, the coupling was only a few feet from the water main break. But the initial search began on what turned out to be the wrong side of the main pipe....
--more--""MWRA workers find other half of failed pipe coupling; But a key piece in Weston main break still stuck" by Travis Andersen and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff | July 29, 2010
WESTON — Workers found the remaining half of a failed pipe coupling yesterday at the site of a massive water main break in Weston, a development that officials said is crucial to helping them determine the cause of the May 1 accident....
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"Crew clears asbestos hurled from a burst steam pipe" by Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent | July 16, 2010
Workers in hazardous materials suits hosed down cars and trees coated with asbestos dust yesterday on a three-block stretch of Harrison Avenue, a day after a burst steam pipe showered asphalt and the harmful fibers onto the street.
Air quality tests showed the asbestos levels did not exceed safety standards.
They told New York the same thing after 9/11 and that was a lie.
It was the third time since 2007 that steam pipes owned by Trigen Boston Energy Corp. ruptured and sprayed asbestos, a mineral fiber that can cause lung cancer....
The break occurred next to the Boston Herald, in an industrial stretch straddled by Chinatown, the South End, and the Southeast Expressway....
No problem' everybody back to work.
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