ATLANTA — Hours after Monroe Drive was shut down for a water main break on Friday, the water is flowing again, but the road is still closed.
Channel 2′s Bryan Mims was near the water main break, where there’s a big hole still visible on Monroe Drive, just outside of Ansley Mall.
The traffic issues are causing delays and backups on Piedmont Avenue too.
The repairs Friday forced some businesses to close for the afternoon because they had no water, including a Starbucks at the mall.
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The hole in the road was two or three feet wide and had water rushing beneath it.
Atlanta police had to shut down Monroe Drive between Piedmont Avenue and the entrance to Ansley Mall.
Workers from the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management used jackhammers and backhoes to dig away the pavement where the hole had opened up so they could reach the damaged pie, but the water still had to turn off to make repairs.
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Evan Romeo, a restaurant manager at Brooklyn Bagel and Deli said it was lucky the water was turned off in the afternoon, and not the morning.
At the deli, Romeo said the water stopped just in time for lunch and that he got an early warning it might happen.
“Our water’s gonna be turned off halfway through the day, so we had to close down our drink station, had to close down our bathrooms,” Rome said, though he was able to keep the business open the rest of the day. “It’s a pretty big inconvenience, it’s a little bit better that it happened midday. If ith happened this morning, we wouldn’t be able open right now.”
The water main break on Monroe is only about six miles from the large water main break that happened on Clairmont Road in Brookhaven and impacted residents for days.
In that case, it was an aging pipe, and the recent cold weather, that was to blame for the break.
That could be the case on Monroe Drive, too.
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