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Why Calgary's acoustic monitoring didn't catch the latest water main break

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Michael Thompson, Calgary's general manager of infrastructure services, says there are roughly a million wires wrapping around Calgary's main water feeder. While the city heard 18 snap in 2025, they did not detect any in the two months before the Dec. 30 water main break.

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