Water main on Aspen’s Hyman Ave. ruptures

Water main on Aspen’s Hyman Ave. ruptures

The water main under the East Hyman Avenue pedestrian mall experienced a circumferential crack on Thursday night that caused it to rupture. Ryan Loebach, deputy utilities director for Aspen, told The Aspen Times via email Friday that changing weather increases the chance that a pipeline will break, in addition to pipeline age, installation conditions, and depth. “Unfortunately, water pipelines are not perfect and do break from time to time,” Loe…