Occasionally a irrigation fitting like the one pictured will fail. This 2 inch fitting was under full pressure when it failed during the early morning hours and ran for 90 minutes before the leak was spotted during our morning rounds.
The water line the fitting was on was shut down; the pipes were exposed, and a new fitting is installed.
Failures like this one are not common but will happen over time. Most 2 inch lines are glue joint fittings and through normal use and winter freeze thaw cycles occasionally the glue joints will give out. This fitting was installed in 2000.
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