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I feel terribly for the affected homeowners. Unfortunately it is hard to understand this as an "accident" or an "emergency" when it has been known since at least 2011 that all of the similar pipes in this area are in imminent risk of failure. We can repair this one section of pipe, but the next section is bound to break soon, because many of the older pipes have the same problem. Last summer we saw a different section of the same pipe in the same area fail for the same reason, and homeowners had sewage in their basements and 300,000 of raw sewage flowed into the bay. Now we have a sinkhole in a major street, a near miss on a gas line explosion, a water main shutdown, and more homeowners with more sewage in their basements. What a mess. Someone needs to come up with a broader solution quickly, preferably before the next section of pipe fails.