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This article was published 14/03/2014 (4280 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
City officials aren’t saying it, but it appears the strategy of advising properties in at-risk areas to run a cold-water tap 24 hours a day is paying off.
There has been a steady decline this week in the daily increase of additional properties affected by frozen waterlines.
City hall’s latest numbers show an additional 50 properties have frozen waterlines. But the pace of the increase is slowing down.
Monday to Tuesday saw an increase of 90 affected properties; Tuesday to Wednesday the increase was 60 properties; Wednesday to Thursday the increase was 50 properties.
The number of affected properties stood at 1,766 Thursday evening, compared with 1,716 on Wednesday.
The number of properties waiting to have lines thawed is now 1,089, up from 1,045 on Wednesday.
City officials continue to refuse to identify where the newly affected properties are located, or if they are within the at-risk zones. Officials won’t even say which areas of Winnipeg are in the at-risk zones.
The data show full service was restored to six more properties from Wednesday to Thursday; and temporary service, with a hose connection to a neighbour, was extended to 17 more properties in that time.
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