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Congress Street became Congress River this morning

By adamg on Mon, 01/08/2018 - 8:46am
Flooded Congress Street in downtown Boston

Cybah got downtown early enough today to watch the rapids on Congress Street, between City Hall and Faneuil Hall, caused by a broken water main.

Nate Morrow arrived in time to watch the repair crew at work:

Congress Street repair work
Neighborhoods: 
Downtown
Free tagging: 
BWSC
Water main breaks
Congress Street


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Comments

By anon on Mon, 01/08/2018 - 10:24am.

Why so many water main problems lately?

By SamWack on Mon, 01/08/2018 - 12:14pm.

that torment the MBTA are getting bored, and they're looking for new worlds to conquer.

By DTP on Mon, 01/08/2018 - 12:19pm.

I'd hazard a guess it's because of the record cold temperatures the past couple days.

By Waquiot on Mon, 01/08/2018 - 2:49pm.

I blame the GLX. That's the source of all of this.

By anon on Mon, 01/08/2018 - 5:00pm.

Even water towers are freezing and rupturing in some places now.

By Fitz on Tue, 01/09/2018 - 12:52pm.

Boston has far fewer water main breaks and issues than any other similarly-sized and aged cities. Look at Philadelphia or Baltimore for comparison. The sub-surface infrastructure here is solid and well-maintained. Now the roads on the other hand....