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On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Dan Becker wrote:
> Down here in "The Land Where The Engineers Have Taken Over The Appearance Of
> Our Environment," we now are required to have backflow preventers on the
> water supply line. Just on your side of the right-of-way line. Above
> ground. So now we have "hot boxes" sprouting up to house these pipes that
> oddly burst out of the ground, so they won't freeze.
Bizarre. Here in Michigan, you stick something up into the cold winter
air, it WILL freeze. You want it to stay melted, you keep it safely
below the frost line.
Larry
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Lawrence Kestenbaum, [log in to unmask]
Washtenaw County Commissioner, 4th District
The Political Graveyard, http://politicalgraveyard.com
Mailing address: P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106
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