HEN OUR WATER was turned off one morning last January, we assumed it was due to the sinkhole slowly expanding across the width of our single-lane street in South Philadelphia. But we could only guess, as no one answered the phone at the Philadelphia Water Department, and the first city employee didn’t show up on our street until four hours after the taps died. When one of my elderly neighbors asked how long
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Nov 17, 2022
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