17 Quotes by Eric Takamura

We're going to continue the patching of the pipes where there are cracks. Where we can, we're going to put a sleeve around it. Then, we're going to pour the concrete jacket.

We heard rumors on the street that we're going to get hit. Yeah, we were a little surprise.

More bang for your buck. So we could potentially remove 80- to 100-thousand tons from our waste stream, versus mixed recyclable is only estimated at 24,000 tons.

Now we're starting to question whether this pipe will hold up three more years.

Right now it's only if the current changes, and in the last four days the current has only gone out to sea.

Nobody on my staff ever told me it was going to break any day. We just don't want to take another chance that the existing force main would rupture and break, and run into the same circumstance we had on March 24.

From where I am sitting now, 2008 is not realistic.

I think we're all in the same ballpark; we all have aging systems. It's a big financial burden.

We need to expose the main before repair can begin.