Calgary mayor says primary water main break 'fully repaired,' focus now on remaining 5 hotspots

We have 3 significant updates for today. Firstly, the robotic review that was done on the remaining 300 meters of the feeder main that is exposed right now indicates that there are no further breaches. So we are in good shape. We will be addressing those five hotspots as we indicated on Friday. Second bit of good news is that we are partially reopening 16th Ave. at 11:00 PM and calgary.ca will be updated with the maps that you're going to want to look at. Thirdly, heavy equipment is arriving tomorrow to address those five hotspots that need to be fixed. We are going to be moving into repair mode on those tomorrow and we are doing that work concurrently. And to let you know that the main break that occurred has been fully repaired and we are now focused on knocking off the other five. And again, the work on those will happen at the same time. To give you an idea of what's been happening behind the scenes, we have now engaged with six private sector partners to do various things on this job. Those are Standard, General Volcker, Steven Whistle, LBCOLBCO, Associated Engineering and Pure Technologies. Very big thank you to these organizations that are in doing important work for us. We also convened two round tables over the weekend with some other sectors to talk about their ideas. And how they might work in this situation. We've got two more of those planned over the next couple of days. We'll be talking to experts in heavy construction as well as technology. There are professionals from the oil and gas sector who sat down with our engineers and hydrologists again to exchange ideas on what they've experienced in the projects that they've worked on and how we might be able to leverage some of that information and experience on the situation that we have before us. So this really has been an all hands on deck approach. And I want to thank the number of people who put up their hands and said we'd really like to come and talk with you about where we could be helpful. And I just want to be clear with everyone on the three stages that we need to undertake on this repair work. Firstly, we need to keep water flowing to your homes right now, and that means taking care of the Glenmore facility, including having any contingencies in place. Secondly, we need to get the repairs done as quickly and safely as we possibly can on that stretch along 16th Ave. And right now we've got one out of the six fixes done. There's five more that we need to address, and that work starts tomorrow. To get that done is critical because then we can turn on the tap at the Bear Spa treatment facility again. So that's second. The third thing that we will need to do is a fulsome review of this whole feeder main as well as a full incident review with full transparency to the public.