Water woes in sub zero temps

Jamestown  (CSi)  Working on water mains and service lines in the sub-zero temperatures and frozen ground is not an easy task.    Breaks in a main on 1st Avenue North required attention Thursday morning and again Thursday afternoon.  Friday morning a break occurred on 17th St SW frontage road.

Water was restored in a section of Northwest Jamestown about 4:30-p.m., Thursday, after the Jamestown Water Department and city crew, Thursday afternoon  worked on water main breaks.

Engineering Department spokesperson Justin Lievig says the area was along First Avenue North between 10^th Street and 13^th Street Northwest.

He says the initial break was banded and when water was turned back on another break occurred about 100 feet north of the first break.  After the water was turned back on, another small leak was detected and banded, before the water was again turned on, and the excavation was back-filled.

He says the cold weather is not necessarily a factor in the breaks, as much as age is, with the pipes installed in the 1950’s.

Friday’s Break – see pixs above –  Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Engineer’s Office report a broken water main was repaired Friday.

Justin Lievig says the main was located near the frontage road north of 17th Street Southwest. He says the pipe was repaired and the excavation back-filled in the 2-p.m., hour on Friday.

He adds that the water remained on to the area, and no streets had to be closed during the time of the repair.