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05/30/2026

Towns flush fire hydrants as preventative maintenance. The increased pressure cleans out built-up sediment like iron, tests water line pressure and integrity, flushes stagnant water that can accumulate in "dead legs," and ensures firefighters have reliable access to water during an emergency. When they do this they increase chlorine (sodium hypochlorite) levels to ensure increased sediment levels are properly disinfected to maintain regulatory compliance with NYSDOH. You may experience slight temporary drops in water pressure or rust-colored tap water. The discolored water is usually due to an increase in iron levels which may cause taste and odor problems (usually bleach smell and oily or earthy odors from the iron). You should avoid drinking it until it runs clear and wait to do laundry so your clothes don't stain from the iron. If you notice discolored water, run your cold water taps for 15 to 20 minutes and flush toilets until it clears. Avoid entraining this water into your hot water system as it may take longer to flush it from there. Avoid using refrigerator drinking water filters or other potable water systems like RO filters until the water runs clear as it may bind or clog these filters. You may also need to remove and clean your tap sediment screens of the debris.

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05/24/2026

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Authorities are bracing for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank at a facility in Southern California could leak or explode.

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01/28/2026

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When construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge in 1933, everyone knew men would die. That was simply the cost of progress. For every million dollars spent on a major bridge, one worker was expected to fall.
The Golden Gate was budgeted at $35 million. By the math of the era, 35 men would never go home.
Joseph Strauss, the chief engineer, rejected those odds.
He required hard hats—leather helmets that resembled football gear—when most construction sites had no head protection at all. He banned alcohol on site. He fired any worker caught showing off or taking risks. He even provided sauerkraut juice for hangovers.
But his most radical decision came in 1936, when assistant engineer Clifford Paine pushed him to try something unprecedented.
Strauss hung a massive safety net beneath the entire bridge.
It cost $130,000—a fortune during the Great Depression. The net stretched ten feet wider than the roadway and extended fifteen feet past each end. Critics called it excessive. Strauss fought for it anyway.
The net saved nineteen men.
Workers who fell into it formed a club. When a bridgeman died, his coworkers said he had "gone to hell." But these men had only fallen halfway. They called themselves the Halfway to Hell Club.
Al Zampa fell sixty feet on a fog-slick October morning in 1936, flipping backward three times before the net caught him. He broke four vertebrae. Newspapers said he might die. Twelve weeks later, he walked across a narrow beam on the unfinished bridge to prove his nerve was intact.
On December 14, 1936, six club members posed for a famous photograph, standing together on the steel framework. Al Zampa missed it—he was still healing from his broken back.
The net made workers braver. They moved faster, knowing they had protection below. One bridgeman later said the work went faster because of the net.
For nearly four years, the project seemed blessed. Then, on February 17, 1937, a scaffold collapsed and tore through the safety net, dragging twelve men into the bay. Ten died.
Eleven workers lost their lives building the Golden Gate Bridge. It should have been thirty-five.
Joseph Strauss proved that worker safety was not a luxury. It was a choice.
The bridge opened on May 27, 1937. Nearly 200,000 people walked across it that first day. Al Zampa lived to ninety-five.
And the Halfway to Hell Club became a quiet monument to the idea that progress does not have to cost lives.


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01/14/2026

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