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This Street Blows
In one neighborhood in south St. Louis, the century-old brick stormwater sewer sys- tem works in a most alarming way: When heavy rain falls, the street “explodes,” with water charging up through any cracks and manholes it can find.
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the mannequin and asked if his victims “enjoyed it,” aired on Aug. 30.
hear the water exploding and it sounds like steam, and then chunks of asphalt are flying in the air,” Heath said. “Obvi- ously, you don’t want asphalt chunks flying into the bottom of your car.”
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De Mbella, who was fined about $3,600, apologized for the demonstration, saying he was trying to “raise aware- ness.”
But the Metropolitan Sew- er District doesn’t find it unusual: Sean Hadley of the MSD deadpanned that “the water’s gotta go somewhere. That’s what the system is de- signedtodo—forittopop the manhole covers so that the water can come out and it’s not popping in people’s basements. That’s what you don’t want to happen.”
Fox2-TV reported that on Aug. 30, resident Sacha Heath recorded video of the phenom- enon and posted it to Twitter.
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