Residents cut off from water supply for up to 20 hours
Just minutes after an underground water line broke open, high pressure water forces its way up through the asphalt and the flood tide rises over the curb and base of the tree right next to the source of the powerful leak.
A corroded, 12” cast iron EBMUD water delivery pipe burst open around 4:30 pm on Wednesday August 2nd, rapidly transforming a 200 yard swath of Lincoln Ave. into a temporary creek, as the water rose over the curb and overflowed into scores of front yards and flooding one basement with about three feet of water.
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