During a routine inspection of a sewer main in front of City Hall this year, crews found a date stamp of 1874. The installation date for downtown’s cast iron sewer mains was 1900. Some stone sewers downtown were installed just after the Civil War, and the average installation date was 1883. When the mains break, as they often do, the result is flooding and costly damage.
Sewer department officials held a meeting with the Kansas City Council panel Tuesday that it makes sense to replace all those mains and rehabilitate all the sewers under the downtown streetcar route.
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