Atlanta leaders say water main break repairs nearly complete

ATLANTA — Work continues to repair broken water mains in Atlanta.

In Midtown Atlanta, officials expect water service to return to normal between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. Wednesday.

Throughout the evening and night Tuesday, crews slowly opened the floodgates in the area.

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Gustavo Alvarez lives in Midtown near the water main break on 11th Street, where crews removed an 80-year-old pipe and installed a new one Tuesday.

“Until this morning, we had water. Last weekend we had water. And then this morning we didn’t have water for a few hours,” Alvarez said. Candace McCowan from Channel 2.

And even though the area is still under a boil water advisory, Alvarez said he’s taking his chances.

“I stopped doing it yesterday,” he said.

In northwest Atlanta, Davida Bryant continues to boil and buy water.

“For us, brush our teeth, take a bath, cook anything,” she said. “We’re used to doing this because we’ve been doing it for a few days now, but we haven’t had a word to break it, so we’re still doing it, and it’s costing us.”

The water main break in his area is on MLK Jr. Dr at Bakers Ferry Road.

This rupture is due to an error made by a contractor.

Atlanta Watershed also responded to a water main break at Armor Drive and Clayton Drive in northeast Atlanta.

And then to Beecher Road in southwest Atlanta, where crews quickly made repairs.

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And now, with days of constant water main breaks across the city, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will help develop “a plan to assess” the city’s aging infrastructure.

But that will take time.

From the early hours of Wednesday, some places were without water.

In areas where repairs have been made, water may require up to 24 hours of testing before people can use their water without boiling it.

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