Bart and Cynthia Zolnowski worry about the dangers that may lurk beneath their home. They live miles from a fatal gas explosion last month in Northwest Dallas. The accident has led to hundreds of ...

Question: I was visiting my son’s new home and someone upstairs flushed a toilet. It sounded like Niagara Falls across the ceiling and in the walls. I thought there had to be a leak. Did the builder ...

The Merrimack Valley, the area north of Boston that was shaken by dozens of natural gas explosions Thursday, is served by some of the nation's oldest and most leak-prone pipes. Investigators have yet ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Kalamazoo has dealt with more than 70 water main breaks so far this year, the city’s Department of Public Services says, a rise that has crews working around the clock and ...

Enhanced coated cast iron soil pipe products offer all the benefits of traditional cast iron while negating the major drawback of cast iron in aggressive applications: corrosion. In the 1890s, cast ...

Most of the thousand miles of water pipes that snake through Minneapolis are close to a century old, including the downtown pipe that broke Tuesday, sending 90,000 gallons of water gushing into the ...

Q: Tim, I was visiting my son’s new home and someone upstairs flushed a toilet. It sounded like Niagara Falls across the ceiling and in the walls. I thought there had to be a leak. Did the builder or ...

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