SPRINGDALE -- Springdale Water Utilities officials said Tuesday they are finding new leaks almost as fast as they can patch old ones, but they have a plan to get the problem under control.
"We've had a tremendous number of leaks in our community," Heath Ward, executive director of the Water Utilities, told the members of the Water and Sewer Commission at a meeting Tuesday morning. "This isn't new. This is a problem we've been wrestling with for several months if not years."
Ward told the members of the commission a large percentage of the leaks are being found in areas where polyethylene pipes were commonly installed in residential subdivisions in the 1990s and early 2000s. He said that over time, it has been found that the plastic pipes are more prone to degradation and failure than was previously believed.
