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A More Mundane Failure

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JedClampett

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Aug 13, 2002
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As I remember these guys VE'd one of our portions of the project to such an extent that we bailed on it. Lord only knows what they'll find when they uncover the pipe.
Paraphrasing: "There's never budget to do it right, but there's always budget to do it over."
 
 http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2017/07/28/sewage-pipe-mexico-ruptures-contaminating-arizona-water/518758001/
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