But large water mains, including a 66-inch one running through town, are situated all over the city, and continued pressure from heat and increased demand make pipe ruptures a constant risk.
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The pipe ruptured near the village of Atamano-Vlasovka in the Rostov region and according to preliminary estimates, 500 tons of oil have contaminated seven hectars ( 17 acres ) of farmland, it said.
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On Sunday afternoon, operators shut down the Hope Creek nuclear reactor after a pipe ruptured, sending a cloud of radioactive steam into the building that contains the giant turbine used to generate electricity from the reactor.
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For the first couple of weeks after the pipe ruptured, Phoenix motorists were able to subsist with gasoline stored in a distribution center here, but that supply quickly dwindled and in the last week panic buying set in.
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The explosion at Dalton Foundries Inc . happened about 2 : 45 a . m . when a water pipe ruptured and mixed with iron being produced in one of the foundry's furnaces, said Bob Robinson, owner of BOMAR Security.
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Earlier this week, a navy serviceman died and another was seriously injured after a pipe ruptured aboard the USS Cushing, which was at port in Okinawa, located about 1, 600 kilometers ( 1, 000 miles ), southwest of Tokyo.
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A 24-inch steam pipe ruptured at a construction site on First Avenue in Manhattan on Thursday morning, spraying some of the pipe's asbestos insulation into the air and disrupting traffic near the Queens-Midtown Tunnel through the evening rush hour.
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The pipe rupture occurred in a 55.9 centimeter ( cm ) ( 22 inch ) outside diameter pipe in the A loop condensate system between the fourth feedwater heater and the deaerator, downstream of an orifice for measuring single-phase water flow.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists, a nuclear watchdog group, and Riverkeeper, an environmental organization, have petitioned the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to shut down Indian Point because of an apparent flaw in the emergency cooling systems, which are designed to keep the reactors from melting down if a water pipe ruptures.
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"On December 9, 1986, a steam explosion ( Condensate Feed Piping Ruptured, Due to Internal Erosion and being Over Pressurized when Feed Pump DISCH Check Valve Failed ) in the non-nuclear part of Unit 2 killed 5 workers that day, 2 died later, for a total of 7.
