On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:51:14 GMT, raden wrote:

Klaus - have you EVER heard of anyone having such a thing happen ?

Me, well my parents. Joint on "our" side of the street stop cock failed.
Water board came along and replaced stopcock FOC AFAIK. The lead service
pipe/rising main is still in place, presumably orginal 1930's...

MO it's another money making scam

I agree, the failure rate of service pipes is very low always assuming
they are deep enough and not under areas where big heavy trucks may park
and damage them.

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