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« Health care reps rally before General Assembly hearing | Today | Updated: Providence boy, 15, charged in murder over hair braiding / Photo » March 30, 2006Pawtucket water main repairedPAWTUCKET -- The section of water main broken during a construction mishap yesterday has been repaired and is being restored to service. James L. DeCelles, acting chief engineer of the Pawtucket water system, said drinking water began flowing through the 20-inch water main around 11 a.m. He said customers throughout the water system may notice some discoloration as the renewed water flow dislodges rust from the pipes. The 20-inch water main carries drinking water from the Pawtucket Water Supply Board’s Branch Street pumping station to customers in Central Falls and Cumberland. The pipe broke yesterday morning, as a crew from South Shore Utilities was preparing to install a new 36-inch main that will carry untreated water from the Water Supply Board’s network of reservoirs to the new water treatment plant being built between Branch Street and Route 95. -- Journal staff writer John Castellucci
The crew was removing an abandoned 30-inch pipe to make way for the 36-inch water main, DeCelles said, when a section of the adjoining 20-inch water main broke. Water service to Cumberland and Central Falls was interrupted, but only briefly. DeCelles said Water Supply Board engineers and workers devised another way to route water to those communities through the Pawtucket water system’s 240-mile network of pipes. Meanwhile, a South Shore Utility crew worked through the day yesterday to locate the break and fix it. DeCelles said the repair was finished around 7 or 8 p.m. -- Journal staff writer John Castellucci
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