The Saga of Continuing Water Main Breaks in Peru

I understand that in the Spring time, many water main breaks occur because of the cycle of thawing and refreezing of the ground . My question is since the replacement of a long stretch of a new water main was installed by Ossola from 4th St to 7 St in the First Ward, there have been a series of new breaks on the main just beyond the replacement.

I do remember the discussion at the council meetings about the large number of breaks along that road. It was decided to replace all of it for that reason. Everyone seemed pleased with that and I do remember our engineering consultant Chamlin saying that it would probably relieve much of the low water pressure problems in the area because it would be a larger size main and would have more pressure.

I am aware of at least 3 water main breaks in the road extending from the new main and onto 7th Street and as far as Lincoln. A N.T. article stated that there had been 7 breaks, 6 from pressure and one from a backhoe incident. SPW stated "new work where the old lines existed likely caused the problem. Bleck said more breaks are possible until they determine the problem" OK, we have an engineering consultant overseeing the project, I hope. Are some of these breaks predictable and could something have been installed to avoid the sudden surge of increased water pressure? I don't know but it just seems to me that this problem should have been foreseeable. Perhaps if we had a city engineer here in Peru, someone who would always be there to oversee projects and give their advice to projects being done. We now have more population than some local towns who already have a city engineer and we continue to lag behind. Lets only hope that with some new people on the council, recently elected Rodney Perez and Mike Radtke they will be an added voice to hire a City Engineer and save money in the process.