Maybe it’s because I don’t live surrounded by concrete, but this shit is just dumb. Beyond all the points made so far about why this was temporary at best, were the citizens planning on suing the local fire department or the city if the fire hydrant had to be used for its intended purpose. I’m pretty sure a fire fighter isn’t going to care about your “aquarium” when they need to hook up their truck to put out a fire that could be endangering someone’s life.
They didn’t need to discuss anything with you, because it is their job to maintain infrastructure. You don’t own the fire hydrant or the side walk. I will say that in the before and after pictures it looks like the same hydrant. Now I know they can be rebuilt, so maybe the hydrant was actually fixed. If it wasn’t, the city is a bunch of assholes as well. If they just let it keep leaking they will have to replace that new concrete much sooner than later.
