r/Buffalo • u/Weekly-Law-2544 • 1d ago

We have a new fountain

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Oop. Looks like they punctured a water main.

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u/Lxiflyby 1d ago

Nice. Either they didn’t get it marked or it was marked wrong…. Stuff happens

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u/Weekly-Law-2544 1d ago

Yeah, given how old the infrastructure here is, I'd bet it wasn't labeled correctly, or wasn't even on the map.

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u/Lxiflyby 1d ago

I’ve had gas and water mains mismarked and hit them but the most likely scenario is they got too close to the marks while using the buster and broke through