Residents are being told to boil their water.
Around 3 p.m. Tuesday, the 20-inch water main burrowed about 12 feet down and blew a two-line wide hole in 44th Street at Burlingame Avenue.
For more than 24 hours, the Wyoming Department of Public Works has been doing its best to get that line fixed.
“It is a huge deal in a way because if you’re used to getting water from the faucet and you can’t — that’s a huge deal,” said Valarie Stewart, a resident at Deer View Apartments just northwest of the break.
“I really think we really need to get the ball rolling on getting the water back on.” Arron Vis, assistant director for the Wyoming Department of Public Works agrees.
“We been working on it around the clock,” Vis said.
No, this is old age, something wrong with the pipe, it’s time to fail so we know this pipe was put in in the mid-1960s so it was just it’s time,” Vis said.
“That 20-inch water main has a crack in there that’s about 10 feet and when that happens, the force of it kind of self-excavates that hole,” Vis said.
Because of the crack, 44th Street will be closed at Burlingame Avenue at least through the weekend until crews can refill and repave the road.
The conditions make miserable work on one of the coldest days of the year.