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Unseen problems
After collapse, city studying aging storm sewers
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An employee of Mayer Specialty Services, Goddard, wraps up removing a wheeled robot from a Great Bend storm water sewer Monday afternoon. A concrete section of the sewer that runs from near Great Bend High School to the Lischeskey drainage ditch is being examined after one section collapsed. - photo by Dale Hogg
Sure, they’ve found a goose. But the displaced fowl found in the murky storm sewer near Brit Spaugh Park is not the real problem lurking in the subterranean system. That would be the falling rebar and crumbling concrete.