Slide # 8 : Water Main Breaks vs. Number of Water Mains

Water Main Breaks vs. Number of Water Mains

This is the graph that stunned me into silence in 2001. I had twice as many mains with ten breaks as eleven; twice as many again with nine, twice again with eight, all the way down. The only bend in the curve is the high number of mains with zero breaks - because half our system is plastic and that has basically zero breaks because of Calgary's ultra-conservative, careful install practices with PVC.