{"id":402078,"date":"2015-10-02T11:29:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=402078"},"modified":"2015-10-03T17:54:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T22:54:43","slug":"east-texas-water-loss-caused-by-aging-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=402078","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Water Loss Caused by Aging Pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"th\"<\/a>EAST TEXAS — Water loss due to old pipes is a problem all across the country, including here in East Texas. KETK reports the city of Tyler and other local entities are working to fix things. Area providers say aging infrastructure isn’t the only reason for water loss, though. Other than pipes bursting in the street, you can also attribute water loss to theft, firefighting, and meter issues. But utilities still say main breaks are the main reason. <\/p>\n

The number one reason for pipes breaking and leaking is old age. As cities age and expand, infrastructure systems grow older, sometimes leading to problems like pipes that need patching. According to Lindale Rural Water, leaks in pipes are caused by the ground shifting and moving. “We had a wet spring, and…July, August, September, it got dry,” Lindale Water Supply General Manager Sam Beeler says. Heading into the cooler months, East Texans might notice more and more pipes bursting and more water leaking. Beeler says that’s because as older pipe systems get colder, they can’t sustain the elements. <\/p>\n

Like Lindale Rural Water, Tyler Water Utilities says it’s constantly maintaining the city’s 620 miles of piping. “We try to do a good job of maintaining the system,” says Director of Utilities and Public Works Greg Morgan. “I personally think we do an excellent job of maintaining the system, but we do have an aging infrastructure issue, and being prepared to move forward with that is part of what we do.” With developing capital improvement plans, Tyler aims to lessen the amount of water lost each year. “It’s an issue across the nation and our water loss varies year to year,” Morgan says.<\/p>\n

That number can be as low as ten percent of the water the city controls, but in one recent year, the city lost about 20 percent. That’s over 4 billion of the 24 billion gallons of water the city’s produced in the past two years. “The city of Tyler, like most cities in the nation, there’s always infrastructure issues, as the infrastructure gets older it needs to be replaced,” Morgan says.<\/p>\n

The City of Tyler adds that maintenance and repair are key when replacement isn’t needed. Lindale Rural Water says it’s lessened the amount of water lost over the last decade or so by replacing six to ten miles of piping a year. “With our program continuing to repair lines and put in new lines, it’s slowed it way down,” Beeler adds. Morgan says the latest plan in place will cost about $73 million to upgrade the system over the next ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EAST TEXAS — Water loss due to old pipes is a problem all across the country, including here in East Texas. KETK reports the city of Tyler and other local entities are working to fix things. Area providers say aging infrastructure isn’t the only reason for water loss, though. Other than pipes bursting in the … Continue reading East Texas Water Loss Caused by Aging Pipes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":402081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 01:21:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402078"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402112,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402078\/revisions\/402112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/402081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}