Water valves, railroad crossing and snow removal topics at Pine Bluffs Town Council

Tuesday’s town council meeting opened with a discussion of the water main break this past winter. While crews worked diligently to open and close valves to divert the water, there was still several hours that residents went without water. This time could have been shortened drastically had there been a map of the current water valve and hydrant system.

The system in place now will get town workers within three meters of a valve; however, there are still about forty to fifty valves in town that need to be mapped. The infrastructure is already mapped, but the valves are just not there. In a unan...