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  2. Memphis utility lifts boil-water advisory after 5 days ... - AOL

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    Memphis' water company lifted a boil-water advisory for more than 600,000 people Tuesday that was in place for five days due to freezing temperatures that caused pipes to break throughout the ...

  3. 2010 Boston water emergency - Wikipedia

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    The 2010 Boston water emergency occurred on May 1, 2010, when a water pipe in Weston, Massachusetts, broke and began flooding into the Charles River.This led to unsanitary water conditions in the greater Boston area, which resulted in Governor Deval Patrick declaring a state of emergency and an order for residents to boil drinking water. [1]

  4. Boil water advisory for parts of Frederick County lifted - AOL

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    Update 11/23 — As of 8:30 p.m., the boil water advisory for the affected parts of Frederick County was lifted. FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — Officials said a boil water advisory was ...

  5. Boiler explosion - Wikipedia

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    These are boilers which are built at a factory then shipped out as a complete unit to the job site. These typically have better quality and fewer issues than boilers which are site assembled tube-by-tube. A package boiler only needs the final connections to be made (electrical, breaching, condensate lines, etc.) to complete the installation.

  6. Pipe bursting - Wikipedia

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    Pipe bursting is a trenchless method of replacing buried pipelines (such as sewer, water, or natural gas pipes) without the need for a traditional construction trench. "Launching and receiving pits" replace the trench needed by conventional pipe-laying.

  7. Boilover - Wikipedia

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    Boilover onset mechanism. The extreme violence of boilovers is due to the expansion of water from liquid to steam, which is by a factor of 1500 or more. [3] In practical storage scenarios, the presence of water under the burning fluid is sometimes due to spurious accumulation during plant operation (e.g., rainwater entering a seam in the tank roof, off-specification products from the source ...

  8. HPV 'cures' are popping up online, but here's the truth about ...

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    The virus can only live in certain cells on the surface of the skin or soft tissues in the body’s canals and organs, the American Cancer Society said. About 40 of more than 200 HPV strains can ...

  9. Boil-water advisory - Wikipedia

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    First known science-based boil-water advisory (1866) John Snow's 1849 recommendation that water be "filtered and boiled before it is used" is one of the first practical applications of the germ theory of disease in the area of public health and is the antecedent to the modern boil water advisory. Snow demonstrated a clear understanding of germ ...