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Walmart is claiming plumbing problems are to blame and the store would reopen in six months. But Walmart plumbing technician Codi Bauer tells 8 On Your Side he is suspicious. "Even if they had to replace the whole sewer line, it wouldn't take six months to replace a whole sewer line in that store," he said.
The company also told Hillsborough County Commissioner Victor Crist something different."No [the Walmart official] didn't mention anything about plumbing. He just said repairs and updates to the store," Crist said.
A separate letter sent to the county claims the layoffs are permanent.
Walmart doesn't have miles of pipes under its floors. Restrooms, sinks, etc are around the edges. Freezers and fridges are typically served from above not from below. My local Sams Club recently underwent a major renovation and never closed - this included relocating the restrooms and moving and adding freezers and fridges.
That's the thing. It's all plenum in a big box or other warehouse building type, except for more or less one side where the service areas are.
However, two plumbing technicians who have worked for several years at the Brandon Walmart aren't buying the corporate statement.
"They don't even really shut down the stores when they remodel them," said Kelly Halbert. Halbert says he's fixed some plumbing issues at the store, but nothing major. "Just ordinary, standard maintenance problems. People drop things in toilets all the time, keys, cell phones, they flush em down, lines get clogged you snake em out. Standard," said Halbert.
His working associate Codi Bauer also doesn't believe the store is being closed due to plumbing issues. "I've done a lot of maintenance work out there. I go out there and I unclog the drains, but there's been no major problems there, it's all been normal stuff that we do at every store," said Bauer.
Walmart did not immediately return an email requesting clarification about their previous statement.
A Walmart plumbing technician, one of the 400 employees who could be out of work until the holidays, tells the station that the plumbing explanation lacks credibility. “Even if they had to replace the whole sewer line, it wouldn’t take six months to replace a whole sewer line in that store,” he says.
Additionally, while this closure is being listed as temporary, a letter sent to the county claims the layoffs are permanent.
An ABC News report out of Tampa claims that no plumbing permits have been pulled in any of the municipalities where Walmart closed stores on Monday.
A city official from Midland, TX, tells ABC that his plumbing inspector was sent away when he tried to visited the closed store earlier this week to help them secure necessary permits.
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