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2. Path shut after water pipe 'goes pop' on bridge - AOL

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   A pipe has sprung a leak on a busy bridge causing water to spray down onto the river below. The mains pipe burst on the Queen Alexandra bridge in Sunderland and prompted Northumbrian Water to ...

3. Shoring - Wikipedia

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   Shoring is used on board when damage has been caused to a vessel's integrity, and to hold leak-stopping devices in place to reduce or stop incoming water. Generally consists of timber 100 mm x 100 mm and used in conjunction with wedges, to further jam shoring in place, pad pieces to spread the load and dogs to hold it together. Also used on ...

4. Pipe plug - Wikipedia

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   Pipe plugs provide a trench-less method for the maintenance of drains and sewers, and construction and testing of non-pressurized gravity pipelines. There are three main purposes of pipe plugs. These are temporary sealing or stopping the fluid flow in a pipeline, leak testing and by-passing the flow.

5. Efforts to stem the Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia

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   [7] [8] The second technique, placing a 125-tonne (276,000 lb) containment dome (which had worked on leaks in shallower water) over the largest leak and piping the oil to a storage vessel on the surface, failed when gas leaking from the pipe combined with cold water formed methane hydrate crystals that blocked the opening at the top of the dome ...

6. Deep freeze breaks pipes, creates water crisis across South - AOL

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   More than 400 customers reported burst pipes, so between unreported leaks, closed businesses and empty vacation homes, the system figures thousands of leaky pipes are gushing water.

7. Trillions of gallons leak from aging drinking water systems ...

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   Even before that, it was losing an estimated 65% of water, including millions of gallons gushing from broken pipes for years, said Ted Henifin, the water system’s federally appointed third-party ...