Tyco (NYSE:TYC) spun off its ADT Corp. (NYSE: ADT) alarm security business as a separate public company on October 2 after selling its pipe and valve business earlier this year to pump maker Pentair.

FORBES: Corporate Castoffs Can Be Keepers

The superintendent of the Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District, Dennis Karnes, can still remember sitting on a well-pipe as a boy and being launched into the duckpond as soon as the farmer opened the valve and natural pressure spewed several thousand gallons a minute of ground water against his legs.

ECONOMIST: The Pecos river