Water/Sewage pipes aren't working

[dmhead777]

I have been playing Cities: Skylines since it was first released. I know how to lay the correct pipe and connect it to the appropriate stations. However, after downloading the Snowfall DLC, pipes will not work. I have put down water and sewage pipes and no matter how close they are to buildings, an icon will show above the building saying not enough water or sewage access. I have triple checked if I have enough power, made sure the stations are in the water, and even switched between stations. Sometimes the stations won't even operate unless I bulldoze and rebuild them. I guess my question is anyone else having this problem? I just wanted to enjoy the snowfall DLC because it looks super fun, but I can't if everyone is complaining about water problems.

[grapplehoeker]

Hm... this is strictly in vanilla or do you have any mods active?
Please state what they are and upload a save game to your Workshop, and set that save to 'Share' from the Content Manager in game. Then we can take a closer look.

[dmhead777]

Yes, mods are active. Will do, thank you. I didn't think about trying without mods because I wanted to get familiar with the DLC first before going vanilla.

[barrygreybeard]

make sure your water and sewage systems are connected together, each "pipe" contains one blue and one green pipe, before the latest patch you could have separate systems even though that was not necessary, now they have to be connected together...

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by dmhead777:

Yes, mods are active. Will do, thank you. I didn't think about trying without mods because I wanted to get familiar with the DLC first before going vanilla.

I treat every DLC the same way regardless of mod conflicts or not. I always play them first in vanilla so that I learn how the base game handles. Then I'll know what mods I could use to compliment that.

[dmhead777]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=638740128

Barry, that may be the reason why it's not working. I was always taught that connecting the pipes or stations caused contamination? Why the hell would they make it so you have to connect them?

[barrygreybeard]

its always been the case, each pipe contains pipes for both water and sewage so one system covers both. they do not contaminate each other, the only way that can happen if your fresh water intake pump sucks up sewage from the ground or the river. now they have introduced and additional pipe network, hot water which has to be connected to the same system, albeit with upgraded pipe network. Whether its by design that it wont work with separate systems I don't know but they probably never checked as one system will cover all ....

[dmhead777]

Interesting. I have always done it as separate systems. It always worked so I never tinkered. So, now if I have a water treatment plant plus a water pumping station I just connect the two stations, but not pipes themselves correct?

[MarkJohnson]

I looked and you problem is you are separating water and sewage. It's fine, but unnecessary. Both water and sewage share the same pipe. Just connect the two systems together and you'll be fine.

You don't need overlapping pipes, so you could bulldoze the excess if you wanted. Might save a few dollars on the extra maintenance.

edit.
Forgot to tell you to separate your water intake pump and your sewage output pipe.

Sometimes you can get seepage if too close together if water flow isn't fast enough. The intake pipe can pull too much water and cause a little back flow of the water and take in sewage and poison the cims. I try to keep them as far away from each other as possible. Different rivers if possible.

[barrygreybeard]

you can join the pipes too, just make one pipe network and connect both sewage treatment plant and water pumps to it, but bear in mind to place the pumps and the sewage outlets so they dont contaminate each other

[hapiblt]

The only way how you can fix it (That I found out) is to redo all of the piping

[hapiblt]

You just have to pipe everywhere AGAIN and that means the old is bad and the new is good

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by hapiblt:

The only way how you can fix it (That I found out) is to redo all of the piping

Originally posted by hapiblt:

You just have to pipe everywhere AGAIN and that means the old is bad and the new is good

I guess that would work, but that sounds like the long and hard way to cure the problem. In fact, you're like to replicate the issue again if anything and you're likely to be back where you started.

Much easier to hunt down the issue. Then you'll know what you did wrong and not do it again.