Perry Avenue Water Tower (Racine, Wisconsin): Difference between revisions

In 1999, the city council granted [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_One{{W|Cellular One|Cellular One, Inc.]}} permission to place cell phone antennas on top of the standpipe tank.<ref>Buttweiler, Joe. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44335524/the_journal_times/ "BUS to survey riders, prospects"], [[Racine Journal Times]], March 3, 1999, page 1C.</ref> On the morning of September 24, 2006, the standpipe tank was overpressurized and nearly overflowed, causing a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_hammer{{W|Water hammer|water hammer]}} that resulted in eight water main breaks. The employee who was operating the tank at the time had been operating the Coolidge Avenue tank in December 2005 when a similar incident occurred, so he was fired for a second incidence of negligence. His union, [[AFSCME Local 63 (Wisconsin)|AFSCME Local 63]], appealed the firing, arguing that the Racine Water Utility had ignored faulty equipment and employee training issues that led to the accident, but an arbitrator found in favor of the utility.<ref>[werc.wi.gov/grievance_awards/7216.pdf "In the Matter of the Arbitration of a Dispute Between Racine Waterworks Commission and AFSCME Local 63"], [[Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission]], November 14, 2007.</ref>