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Water main breaks

By adamg - 5/23/19 - 11:22 am
Flooded State Street in downtown Boston

Neal Gaffey shows us you'll need waders or maybe a kayak if you want to get around State Street downtown. Read more.

By adamg - 5/22/19 - 3:46 pm

Boston Police report Arlington Street is shut between Parsons and Market streets due to a burst BWSC water main. BWSC has rushed workers to the scene and is advising nearby residents they might see brownish/yellowish water and that the should switch to bottled water for cooking or drinking.

By adamg - 3/24/19 - 1:00 pm

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.

By adamg - 3/12/19 - 8:02 am
Buckled pavement after water-main break in the Back Bay

Rick Macomber shows us the aftermath of the water-main break at Commonwealth Avenue and Exeter Street last night.

By adamg - 3/11/19 - 10:13 pm

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.

By adamg - 10/14/18 - 10:13 am
Flooding at Bunker Hill Community College

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.

By adamg - 2/18/18 - 12:09 pm

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.

By adamg - 2/7/18 - 11:08 am

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.

By adamg - 1/8/18 - 8:46 am
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: Read more.

By adamg - 1/1/18 - 8:21 pm
Geyser on Huntington Avenue

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.

By adamg - 11/11/17 - 9:53 am
Geyser in Cambridge

Biotechnical watched Cambridge's new water attraction at Cambridge and 5th streets this morning.

Jessica Feldish took some video of the geyser: Read more.

By adamg - 11/10/17 - 9:05 am

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.

By adamg - 10/31/17 - 7:35 am

A water-main break has basically shut Sullivan Square. Broadway in East Somerville is shut. Buses are being diverted.

By adamg - 10/15/17 - 9:40 am
Burst water main in Roslindale

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.

By adamg - 10/12/17 - 9:20 am
South End flooded road

Neal Gaffey watched the flooding at Harrison Avenue and East Brookline Street late last night.

By adamg - 9/26/17 - 11:40 am

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.

By adamg - 9/23/17 - 10:04 am
Burst water main in the South End

Andrea shows us the aftermath of a water-main break at Berkeley and Appleton streets in the South End this morning.

By adamg - 11/30/16 - 7:45 am
Flooded Chinatown

Rob Colonna shows us what happens when a water main bursts in Chinatown, in this case where Kneeland and Stuart meet at Washington, around 5:30 a.m.

Katie Bell chronicled the early morning flooding caused by a 20-inch main cracking: Read more.

By adamg - 6/8/16 - 7:40 am
Water-main break on Washington Street in the South End

BosGuy woke up without water this morning, went outside to investigate and found a water-main break at Washington and Waltham.

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