An unrepaired rotten sewage main forced the closure of the Ir HaCarmel (Carmel City) pumping station (see pic) and bypassing crude sewage into the wadi. The sewage contaminated nearby drinking water well and stopped the supply in the Haifa and Carmel area. The problem is that the Druse city is unwilling to accept the responsability for the maintenance and repair of their main sewage line. This situation, of Arab villages unwilling to maintain their infrastructure, is typical of Israel. And it works: the Government has established an emergency fund to do what the local municipalities are failing to do.
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Here in Phoenix, AZ it was discovered that most of the city's sewage lines were rotting out far faster than anyone expected. Several crews went into the larger line discovering that the tops of the concrete pipes were missing and that the top of the tunnel was composed of curved earth! And this is in a city that maintains a sewage system serving about 2.5 million people.
Yes, sewage pipes tend to corrode in their ¨roofs¨ because of the accumulation of drops of acid. Maintenance is the last thing that gets budgeted, specially maintenance of underground infrastructure, that is not visible to the public.
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