An introduction to a little leak

Sep 3, 2016. A few weeks ago, a leak sprung up out of the sidewalk in the 700 block of North 4th Street in DeKalb Illinois. I walk by it at least twice a day. Hoping to let somebody know that they should fix the leak, I called the city water department. They sent out someone who looked at it. A few days later, I called again. They sent someone in a truck to look at it and to place a barricade near it. A few days later, I noticed my alderman walking his dog and said, "Mike, would you get a look at that leak?" I guess he did. Dave lives in the house from whose sidewalk the water is leaking. He's aware of it. He even demonstrated that the ground near the leak is getting soggy.

Now if the city is aware of the leak, and the resident is aware of he leak, there must be a good reason that nobody has fixed it. Here's what I think the reason is. Could it be that this is such a good looking leak, that it is being preserved for others to view? I thought of French Impressionist artist Claude Monet and of how his haystack images demonstrate that a mundane object can be seen in many different light conditions as a thing uniquely beautiful for the time and place in which it is captured. So, lest this have artistic merit, I promise, once a day, to photograph the leak and to add it to this blog. Now the world can know of the splendid leak that we sustain here in our city.

Here are three images captured in 2016, on the 2nd of September, at 4:07 p.m.

Bubbly water. Water that has been in our aquifers for millennia. Rolling down the street to the sewer so that it is deposited into the rivers to journey once again.