These are articles that McElroy would like to draw attention to.
Atlantic Street in Springfield, Mo., is notorious for water line breaks. It has been cut up and torn up more times than anyone can count to make repairs on a 1925 cast iron water main that is buried only three to four feet underneath. Any kind of weather — heat waves, cold snaps, droughts and downpours — can cause the ancient pipe to burst or rip at the joint under the patched street. A recent …
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Barnsdall, Oklahoma — 97-year-old Arthur Moore peers down into an open ditch to inspect a new 2-inch polyethylene water line for his 136-tap rural water district in Northeastern Oklahoma. He shuffles his boots as he goes and the white hair and unhurried movements seem out of place on a construction site. Nevertheless, Moore is up to the job and it is fitting that he is the inspector of the pipeline because in many aspects, it …
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