Water main break in C.B.S. leaves some residents without water

Some residents in Conception Bay South are without water Monday evening due to an emergency disruption to repair a break in the transmission water main in the Anchorage Road area. 

Repairs will take place Monday night, and the town hopes to restore water by late Tuesday morning. 

Those living in higher elevation areas such as Dunns Hill and the South Foxtrap Access Road will be most affected and may have low to no water pressure, says Mayor Darrin Bent.

Those in lower elevation may not even notice anything.

"There's no good time for a water main break, I can tell you that," Bent said in an interview with CBC Radio's On The Go. "But here we are, we have one today."

The break was discovered by workers Monday afternoon near a section of the old water main, which the town is working to replace.

Bent says it's not a "gushing" break, but it is losing water. 

Water pressure might lessen in some places as people get home from work and use the tap for their daily activities, says Bent.

The affected line supplies water for the entire town of CBS, but problems have been discovered throughout the past few years as workers dig up old pipes. 

The mayor says the town is mindful of the effects the break could have, but that it will take "a lot of time" to clean up the site before crews get to the source.

Residents, institutions and businesses will be updated with any further information.

"Fingers crossed, if all goes well sometime in the middle of the night, this will be fully repaired and people waking up tomorrow morning won't even know there's a difference," said Bent.

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