Published May 17, 2010

OK, how is this thing still missing?

Crews are slated to begin excavating parts of the Charles River bed Monday, continuing the search for a massive pipe coupling that failed earlier this month, cutting off potable water to more than two million people in Greater Boston.

Fred Laskey, the beleagured director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, says: “We won’t give up until we get to the bottom of it.” Apparently they won’t get to the bottom of it till they get to the bottom of it.