The Big Dig Is Underway
Here’s what the street in front of our house looks like one day into repairing our collapsed waste line. We’ve been on restricted water usage (as in thirty second showers and flush-only-when-necessary) for the past ten days and we’re ready for a long, hot bath. Evidently the City used to take responsibility for repairing pipes…
Here’s what the street in front of our house looks like one day into repairing our collapsed waste line. We’ve been on restricted water usage (as in thirty second showers and flush-only-when-necessary) for the past ten days and we’re ready for a long, hot bath. Evidently the City used to take responsibility for repairing pipes this far out into the street but now the onus and the cost are on the building owners. Sucks for us.
Thanks, Ameraleed…it is St. Felix I was thinking of.
We replaced our lead water main this summer. The costs were $2,350. It took only a day, two holes in the street and one in the front yard.
I’d love to hear an estimate for the cost of house water main replacement. We might need it soon too…
But I think I can also answer euskaria’s question:
I think you are referring to the houses on St. Felix Street, along side of BAM. The street caved in about 13 years ago because of an underground collapse related to the fill placed there when the subway was built. The B/Q tracks runs under St. Felix. NYC Transit had to rebuild the street and most of the stoops & front yards on the block. Vollmer Associates provided the bulk of the design and engineering services.
So what is the rule now with respect to when the city will cover such an incident? Also, can anyone confirm that a watermain break led to the (IMHO) beautiful facades of the houses on Fort Greene Place across the street from BAM and the Brooklyn Music School? I’d heard this from someone, but wasn’t sure if it was true.
What’s a typical estimate on the water main replacement? Ours is lead too, and it’s always in the back of my mind.
replacing a water main is a smaller job, and is not that related (so not much advantage to doing them together from what I know). When I got my main replaced, they just had to dig one hole in the street, and it took a day to do.
We plan to replace our water main (it’s lead); should we have our waste line replaced at the same time?
Probably finish up Thursday, but hoping to be functional with new pipe by end of today. Digging takes a long time because there are so many other pipes (gas,water, etc) that you have to work around.
How long do they think it’s going to take?