water main

Officials said the hole was probably caused by a water main break.

Students were evacuated off a school bus Wednesday morning after it got stuck in a small sink hole from a water main break in Montgomery County.

The northbound lanes of the Third Street Tunnel in Washington reopened Wednesday but the southbound lanes remain closed as crews work to fix a water main break.

Some have envisioned deadly attacks in which hackers blow up power plants or poison water mains.

Crews worked Tuesday morning to fix a 16-inch water main break in Laurel, utility officials said.

Non-naturally occurring sinkholes can form because of water main breaks, sewer collapses, or even abandoned mines.

If the head in the water main is constant, then a definite quantity of water would be delivered in a given time.

Where fire hydrants are provided, the size of the water main should not be below four inches.

He had been sent to write up a butcher shop that had been flooded from a broken water main.

It is best not to take the water direct from the water-main, but from a cistern about fifteen feet above the nozzle.

If an excessive pressure is obtained in the boiler, it is relieved in the water main.