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Taneytown reports: water main repair unearths buried sewer, parks and police highlight fall programs
Summary
City manager reported an unexpected sewer line over a water main at Roberts Mill requiring concrete encasement; parks and recreation, planning and police presented updates on events, planning efforts and training statistics.
Taneytown city staff reported an unplanned utility conflict during a recent water-main repair, and council members summarized parks programs, planning work and police training at the Sept. 8 meeting.
City Manager Jim said crews repairing a leaking valve near Roberts Mill at Riffles Lane discovered a transite sewer main placed above a ductile-iron water main. “It turns out that the transite main is a sewer, actually a sewer line, that somebody put above a water line, which is really the opposite of the way it's supposed to go,” Jim said. The work required cutting a section of the water line to…
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