Both our neighbors and we are getting fences installed to enclose the back of our lots. Before any digging is done the city sends out someone to mark where the water and electric lines are buried. Red lines are spray painted to mark them .

This hole is being dug on the west side of our property where that neighbor already has a fence installed.

Unfortunately for the fence contractor and the neighbor on the east side, the person doing the marking missed a water line, the main line from the street to their coach house and RV pedestal. This is certainly not the best repair job and the fact it kept on leaking confirmed that fact.

A better repair that worked. The second I saw that first repair, due to my vast experience at repairing broken water lines, I knew what they did wrong. You have to dig back along the lines so you can get enough pipe into the fittings. PVC pipe will bend, but not if it buried in the soil. You can also see they moved the location of the hole. All this work just because someone didn’t mark all the lines.