I live at Number 6 Water Services Excavation Pit

This was the view in front of our house just before sunset last night.
Today, the hole has moved another six metres -- twenty feet -- or so
along the road to the right edge. It involves digging wayyy down
(like 6 metres or more) for new, bigger storm sewer pipes (about 1.3
m. in diameter).

We slept last night with the sound of a waterfall right outside our
open window -- an old spring-fed brook runs down the pipes under our
street and the water comes out of the old pipe, only 2 m. below the
surface, and falls brightly to the open mouth of the new pipe about 3
m. below it. Quite a pleasant sound (since no trucks or steam-shovels
work at night). And the waterfall is a pleasant thing to see, too,
since the water is crystal clear.

The blue pipe at left is our current water supply. It's good water.
The smaller hose, sprayed red, is the actual water connection into one
of the houses to the left outside the picture. All the houses on the
street now have that kind of temporary water connection.

The reddish hose you see snaking at the extreme right is the supply of
sewage from most of the houses so disrupted, by-passing the
excavation.

It's an education in municipal services.