MASON CITY – City officials are warning of frozen water lines in Mason City.
According to city engineer Mark Rahm, the city has received reports of private residential water service lines freezing between outside the building and the water main. Most of the reports are located in the northeast area of the city however with the prolonged extreme temperatures experienced this winter, frozen service pipes are possible anywhere throughout the city due to varying frost depths.
As a precaution, the city is urging residents to measure the temperature of the water coming into the building from an inside cold faucet. Allow the water to run for a minute or two to assure that the water being checked has come from the service pipe outside the building. The normal temperature of water entering the building should be approximately 47 to 58 degrees. If the measured temperature is in the mid to upper 30 degree range you should continue to monitor, and as a precaution run the water periodically or let a faucet trickle if you plan to be away for an extended period of time or overnight to prevent possible freezing of the service pipe.
My brother was the engineer who surveyed that area back in the day. He told me he would never buy home there because there was quick sand only about 15 or 20 feet down and the soil was to sandy. Don’t know if that would cause this but I do know the soil in that area is not good. Most of it was swamp land before developement.
I read a lot of the blogs on this site, and I realize that not everyone thinks/believes the same way. It’s getting to be quite childish when people continuously post comments that have nothing to do with the topic. I get it, you don’t like him because of the way he thinks, and he doesn’t like you because of the things you believe in. That’s OK, because this is still a free country, but come on, you don’t have to remind us in every blog. If you really must continue, use the whiners site, I very seldom read it. Just a thought, nothing personal.
north of east state st and east of federal???????? Allen we must of went to the same classes!!!!
That’s possible….
where at on the ne part of town?
I’ll make an uneducated guess and say, East of Carolina, and North of 12th St.
I wonder how deep the water lines are in that part of town. It’s possibly why that area of town doesn’t have any storm sewers either.