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Updated: Large Water Main Break Shuts Down Service on Puritan

Water service is expected to be restored by at least day's end.

 

Friday before 9 am resident Victor Foresta looked down from his kitchen window and saw a stream gushing across Puritan Road.

The stream, an estimated 8-inches deep, coursed to the nearby Whales Beach path and poured into the ocean.

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"It looked like a tsunami going backwards," he said, surveying a layer of silt in front of his house.

Police, fire and DPW crews arrived to the scene and barricaded Puritan Road, set up details and closed line gates to shut down the flow of water.

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said about 20 homes are without water. The homes are on Puritan Road and Lincoln House Point. 

The director called in Meninno Construction to dig up the road and repair the line. He expects water service to be restored before day's end.

On Puritan a large sink hole formed, an oval about 10 feet long and five feet across — at its longest and widest points. The hole gives a strong an indication where the break took place, the director said.

The Puritan water lines were recently relined, Cresta said.

The break may be related to a hydrant opening at Phillips Park, where a movie set for Grown Ups 2 is being constructed.

Movie representatives have alread indicated that they are willing to work with the town as far shouldering repair costs, the director said. 

Originally, Cresta said about 50 homes would be without water during the repairs.

But it turned out that water service was uninterrupted on Woodbine Avenue and Sutton Place.

 


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