I spent 32 years doing water & waste water planning for small communities, so have a bunch of stories about water system freezing screw-ups. Probably the one that shows how important it is that prior planning is necessary follows.
In most of our part of the world, water & sewer lines need at least 6' of coverage to the top of the pipe to prevent freezing. One city put in many blocks of new water & sewer lines in existing gravel streets without much engineering assistance. (After all, it was just replacing old stuff with new, no problem our staff can do it without a contractor or engineer.)
Several years later the council decided to do a drainage study & pave & gutter all streets for surface drainage. First winter after the job was done, they ended up with several streets that had frozen water lines where freezing had never been a problem before. To make surface drainage system work, some street surfaces had to be lowered by a couple of feet. Subsequently, not enough cover was left on them to prevent freezing. Big expensive mess to solve a problem that could have been prevented with just a little foresite!
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