TOPEKA, KANSAS, HAS TAKEN A NEW TACK ON FIRE HYDRANT problems.  Whereas Washington, D. C. and Tampa, Florida, among others, have been showing broken hydrants as being in service, the Topeka Water Department has been listing hydrants as broken when they are really operational.

When television station Channel 49 requested a print-out of the city’s 5,000 hydrants and their status, they found the records were completely unreliable.  One hydrant that has been out of service since June has actually been replaced with a new one, but their bureaucrats have trouble recording things like that.  When asked why the records were not being maintained, none of the water officials could give a reason.

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