A Watery Milestone

After several complications, we were finally able to connect our water line to the city's system. To make the connection, we tightly strapped a "saddle joint" to the 30 inch water main at Baileywick and Strickland roads. Next we attached a valve (the red thing in the picture) to the saddle joint. Then a specialized crew attached a high power boring drill to the valve. Once the saddle joint, valve, and drill have been checked to make sure their connections are water tight, the drill bores a hole in the city's water pipe to allow water to flow to our pipes. Once the hole is bored, our valve is closed and the drill removed without any water spraying out of the system! The whole process went like clockwork and was done in about an hour. After the last couple sections of pipe are connected to this joint, we will be able to open the valve and start sending water through our entire pipe system.