BCS wrote:
I once had a fire hydrant installed on my property. The city required
an engineering analysis, which ran to quite a stack of paper. After
approval, the workers came by to install it. They never looked at the
analysis, or even the drawings, they just dug up the water main and
stuck a hydrant on it with a specialized tool they had. Done in an
hour or so.
I'd almost bet that buried somewhere in the fine print of the
"engineering analysis" was the assertion "the standard way works" or the
same things in 10 times the words.
It was painfully obvious that this was nothing more than a money-making scheme
for the water utility. It colluded with the city to get those regs written, so
they could literally quintuple the cost of a hydrant install and one had no
choice but pay.
