WBZ reports a water main under Richmond Street in the North End broke today, flooding the street a week after a water main under Richmond Street broke, flooding the street.
Water main breaks
The Boston Fire Department reports a water main burst on Richmond Street between Hanover and North streets around 5:15 a.m. BWSC workers are on scene trying to repair the main.
A water-main break at 710 Gallivan Blvd., across from the CVS, has flooded and shut the road. Several buildings along Gallivan have taken on water.
Neal Gaffey shows us you'll need waders or maybe a kayak if you want to get around State Street downtown. Read more.
NBC Boston reports a broken water main has Tufts Medical Center to shut its emergency room to ambulances because of low water pressure. Flooding also forced the hospital to tell ambulance so to stay away on March 7.
Rick Macomber shows us the aftermath of the water-main break at Commonwealth Avenue and Exeter Street last night.
You might want to avoid the area around a broken water main there. BPD officers are there to help guide you somewhere else as BWSC workers struggle to contain the might flow, which has now inundated Exeter between Newbury and Marlborough and forced the evacuation of some buildings.
The Boston Fire Department reports a water-main break brought firefighters and BWSC and Eversource workers rushing to Bunker Hill Community College around 5:45 a.m.
— Robert Fallon (@Bobisunverified) February 18, 2018
Good thing we didn't have any real flooding today, no? Robert Fallon shows us the cascading water in the Broadway Red Line stop around 10 a.m., the result of a water-main break.
BWSC crews are on site at Brookline Avenue and Francis Street, where a sinkhole has opened up, restricting Francis Street to just one lane between Binney Street and Brookline Avenue.
Brigham and Women's Hospital has sent an alert to staffers: Read more.
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: Read more.
Jessica Feldish got some video of an MWRA water main turned geyser on Huntington Avenue outbound, at the Brookline line just past where it goes under the Jamaicaway. Needless to say, avoid the area.
Biotechnical watched Cambridge's new water attraction at Cambridge and 5th streets this morning.
Jessica Feldish took some video of the geyser: Read more.
— Rick Macomber (@boston_camera) November 10, 2017
Rick Macomber shows us Boston's latest body of water caused by a broken water main, at Charles and Revere streets on Beacon Hill shortly before 4 a.m.
A water-main break has basically shut Sullivan Square. Broadway in East Somerville is shut. Buses are being diverted.
— Witold W (@nethed) October 31, 2017
Kristie Helms probably thought about breaking out a rowboat this morning after a water main on Cliffmont Street, off Canterbury, broke this morning, sending water gushing into the street.
Neal Gaffey watched the flooding at Harrison Avenue and East Brookline Street late last night.
First the basement flooded at Ming Tsai's Blue Dragon on A Street. Then a water-main break sent water up into the restaurant's grease traps, causing a second, and smellier, flood. Read more.
Andrea shows us the aftermath of a water-main break at Berkeley and Appleton streets in the South End this morning.