In February, a water main broke in the parking lot of a Langley business, opening up a sinkhole the size of an SUV. “If we think a leak is imminent we will address it now.”
“The condition of the asset doesn’t necessarily speak about the rupture of the pipe,” he said. After an investment of around $91 million, they hope to be replacing 11 kilometres of pipes each year.īut with around 20 per cent of pipes being in “poor or very poor” condition, that means there’s about 300 kilometres of pipes to replace, he said.ĭo the math – that’s about 27 years to replace them all. Right now, the city replaces about eight kilometres of pipes each year of the1,500 kilometres of pipes in the city, he said. Consequently we are increasing the work we’re doing and replacing more pipes.”
“It’s a slight increase year over year,” Roberge said. He said Vancouver is trying to replace older pipes before they burst – but it’s a big job, with more mains bursting each year.
The pipe that burst is cast iron and was installed in 1962, before the City of Vancouver switched to a much more durable ductile iron, said Daniel Roberge, Vancouver’s director of engineering for water and sewer. “I wanted to open the door, but I was scared. “I said, 'Oh, what’s this?'” said Tino De Resendes, who has lived with his wife in the neighbourhood for 50 years, and never seen so much water in their basement. That’s where a two-week old trickle from a leaky water main turned into a flood, spreading debris as a torrent gushed down Lakewood Drive and Adanac Street, and flooding at least one home. It’s going to take almost three decades to fix the worst of the aging municipal water pipes at current rates – meaning residents may have to expect more burst pipes like the one in East Vancouver, city officials say.
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