MWRA says Belmont responsible. DPW head continues to seek reason for five pipes to fail.
Two days after the failure of five water mains early Saturday morning, Belmont Public Works Department and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority are working to discover the cause or causes for the system failure that left nearly 500 households with no water service or little pressure. But according to a MWRA spokesman, the state authority which supplies 61 communities in eastern Massachusetts with water is not at fault. "[The] MWRA did NOT have any pressure spikes yesterday," Spokeswoman Ria Convey wrote in an email to Belmont Patch Sunday afternoon, referring to the possibility that a spike in pressure in the water system resulted in the 80 to 90 year old pipes to rupture. In fact, the blame, in the view of the authority, lies …
DPW finishing repair work after early morning failure of five main water lines.
A sudden increase in pressure in a large Massachusetts Water Resources Authority line could be the culprit that caused five water mains across Belmont to rupture simultaneous early Saturday morning, Aug. 20, leaving residents and businesses with low water pressure or without service until late in the afternoon. Peter J. Castanino, director of Belmont's Department of Public Workstold Belmont Patch while supervising work at the break in Belmont Center that the multiple breaks that occurred just after 2 a.m. Saturday was "out of the ordinary." The breaks took place on Leonard Street in Belmont Center, along Brighton Street, at the intersection of Brighton and Oliver Road in the Winn Brook neighborhood and one along Franklin Street in the …
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