What Else Can't DPW Attend To?

There's no telling if DPW could have prevented last night's water main break on South 4th Street, but there are concerning signs on our streets of ancient and damaged water-related infrastructure that they seem to be fine with ignoring for years, and their presence begs a few questions.

Here are a few different angles of a long neglected, damaged, sunken and loose water valve in the middle of South 2nd Street, including an exposed, broken and sharp metal ring.  I told two DPW Water Department employees about this valve (and one other nearby) over two months ago.  No one should have to point out something this well damaged and dangerous to them.  It should have been dealt with years ago.

DPW finds time every spring to paint
carrots on several streets for the
farmers market, but this gets ignored,
year after year.

Damaged water infrastructure and a
street hazard.  And ugly.  Why?

Here is another long-damaged water valve, located at Parkwood and Fairview, also with an exposed, loose, broken and sharp metal ring, regularly run over by vehicles:

Does DPW find this acceptable?

I could include many other pictures of long-damaged and sunken DPW water valves in our streets which also beg the same questions: What is keeping DPW from dealing with these?  What has DPW been too busy doing for the past several years to deal with these valves? What is it going to take to get DPW to repair them?  What else associated with our water infrastructure is DPW unwilling or unable to attend to that should be attended to?