Tired, but Happy
It's been a busy several weeks at work. One of the things I do is write the detailed instructions of what we do when we install or retire any gas main in our system. This involves checking to make sure that the designed work orders don't have any nasty unforeseen consequences, and making sure that we maintain the integrity of the existing system while the work is being done.
When I started at the company, about seven tears ago, we replaced twenty miles of gas main a year. Now it's about forty. And yes, that's some of the reason tour gas bill is higher. Of those forty, about 25 miles are in areas that I am responsible for, including the entire town of Riverside.
Riverside was designed by Frederic Olmsted, and he apparently did not believe in a grid layout for urban planning. That made for a fun summer, both on finding my way around town, and not inadvertently retiring any gas main that wasn't ready to be retired. On one Monday, I had two incidents that you really weren't supposed to see once in a year, and that was before a contractor working for us accidentally cut a 2" sixty psi plastic gas main in half.
But the last of the hundred year old gas main we were replacing in Riverside was retired without incident on Monday. I have two more jobs to finish with in the next week, and then I'll actually be able to concentrate on some of the background work of my job again. And hopefully take a little vacation. The picture shows a couple of the guys that report to me, along with a gauge showing zero, after we retired the last of the low pressure main in Riverside.
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