For nearly a third of the residents of Boston and some of its suburbs, it was a weekend without clean tap water after a water main ruptured Saturday in the suburb of Weston and rendered water undrinkable.
At least 700 cars remained trapped Wednesday inside two parking structures at UCLA after a 93-year-old water main ruptured, spewing up to 10 million gallons of water onto the campus and nearby streets.
At some point before the crash, a small water pipe ruptured beneath the side of the highway's two westbound lanes, sending water up to the roadway in the sub-freezing morning air, said Joseph Harney, the Egg Harbor City administrator.
Construction has been under way on water and gas pipes this week, and Deputy Fire Chief Robert Hovsepian said that a 30-inch water main ruptured during the afternoon.
A water pipe ruptured in an annex of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, flooding the floors of three emergency-treatment rooms and prompting the evacuation of about 35 medical and clerical staff members and 25 patients, hospital officials said.
The researchers then washed the silicon surfaces with distilled water, which ruptured the bacteria and exposed the iron oxide crystals.
An elevator shaft and five floors were flooded when a mechanical water line ruptured.
They fear a water main has ruptured somewhere and is pushing water (and other stuff) into our basement as we pump it out.
Pete Wilson, who was governor when the 1994 quake knocked down buildings and freeway overpasses, ruptured water and gas lines, ignited fires and killed about 60 people, said the state was now in better shape to withstand a major temblor.
The 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck at 3 20 a.m. about 6 miles from the city of Napa ruptured water mains and gas lines, left two adults and a child critically injured, upended bottles and casks at some of Napa Valley's famed wineries and sent residents running out of their homes in the darkness.
The water chain later ruptured under the pulling force at t∼60 ns, which cause only a slight drop of the pulling force, and the H-bond number became 4 (see Figure 6 (e)).
