0:35
Brian Boss
16:35 - 17:10
“We also had frozen water main last year. We haven't experienced frozen water main in my time at the utility, so that was very unique. So it changed the complexity of the dig and we pushed off a lot of work to the summer.”
- Speaker
- Brian Boss
- Timestamp
- 16:35 – 17:10
- 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 did is we delayed a lot of work for the summer. So, when we normally would have an emergency in the winter, like a frozen hydrant where the hydrant leg would need to be excavated to thaw it, or a broken hydrant, we would just valve it out of service and get to it in the summer. We also had frozen water main last year. We haven't experienced frozen water main in my time at the utility, so that was very unique. So it changed the complexity of the dig and we pushed off a lot of work to the summer.
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