Braid: A devastating report shows how city managers failed to prevent water line disaster |
They knew!
City hall water officials knew more than 20 years ago that the Bearspaw South water main would blow.
And they didn’t fix it. They deferred, they deflected, and didn’t even tell successive councils what was going on.
All Calgarians now pay for the incompetence, shabby planning and buck-passing outlined in the new report on the 2024 Bearspaw pipe burst.
The timing of this excellent report is perfect, for the worst possible reason. The current pipe fiasco gives it the impact it deserves.
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