{"id":602007,"date":"2026-04-13T21:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602007\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:18:13","slug":"robotic-device-gets-stuck-in-bearspaw-south-feeder-main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602007\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic device gets stuck in Bearspaw South Feeder Main"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A robotic device sent into the Bearspaw South Feeder Main to assess the condition of a steel pipe section has become stuck.<\/p>\n<p>City of Calgary officials say the PipeDiver tool was deployed last Thursday as part of a planned inspection, but it stopped moving almost immediately after entering the line. <\/p>\n<p>Attempts to get it \u201cswimming again\u201d have so far failed. Despite the setback, the city stresses that water service is stable and no restrictions are expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent operation of the feeder main is not affected and there are no impacts to our ability to supply water to Calgary and the region,\u201d reads a release. \u201cWe do not anticipate any water restrictions will be needed as we complete this work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inspection was scheduled for April 9 to 11 and was intended to assess the condition of the existing feeder main, which has experienced multiple breaks in recent years, most recently in late December. <\/p>\n<p>Water restrictions were <a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/2026\/04\/02\/calgary-water-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">lifted on April 2<\/a> after crews completed repairs, marking the third round of restrictions in two years.<\/p>\n<p>Crews expect to remove the PipeDiver sometime this week. The city says evaluating this section of pipe remains important and that alternative inspection methods are being considered.<\/p>\n<p>Provided no additional breaks occur, officials have previously said they do not anticipate further water restrictions until the fall, when the existing line will be shut down again to connect a new replacement pipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A robotic device sent into the Bearspaw South Feeder Main to assess the condition of a steel pipe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-602007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}