Leafing through the Water Board's meeting minutes the other day, I found that it agreed in October to stop maintaining 145 private hydrants located around town. The department said it had a hard enough time keeping up with needs of its own hydrants.
Spurring the change, according to the minutes, was "a recent fire on Davis Drive where it was found that all of their private hydrants were inoperable."
Imagine that.
All of the hydrants at the Cambridge Park housing project, where there are scores of old public housing units, weren't working.
It's damn lucky that there wasn't a catastrophe.
I don't know if they've been fixed.
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Sad!
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