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Brian Boss
21:18 - 21:47
“So this particular main was 11 feet deep, so it was very deep. The ground froze very deep in that area.”
- Speaker
- Brian Boss
- Timestamp
- 21:18 – 21:47
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 20, 2026
From the transcript
What we ended up doing is cutting the pipe, and then we would send a burst of steam down it through a steam hose supplied by this type of truck, a boiler truck. And then we would send a jet of hot water through it. With this type of truck, which is a hydro-excavator that has a jet head on it. And so this particular main was 11 feet deep, so it was very deep. The ground froze very deep in that area.
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