That completely misses the point, it's a harbinger. This area is seeing it first because it is largely floodplains on top of clay coupled with a decent amount o

That completely misses the point, it's a harbinger. This area is seeing it first because it is largely floodplains on top of clay coupled with a decent amount of rain and a consistent freeze-thaw cycle. Merely building a functioning bypass for a pipe of this size at this depth takes the better part of a year. Replacing it? Out in the suburbs some of the projects to repair pipes from the 40s that leaked and caused sinkholes are still ongoing, they started over 20 years ago.