A broken water main that partially closed a DeKalb County road for most of the day Tuesday has been repaired, officials said.
DeKalb police alerted officials to the break, which began disrupting traffic around 7:45 a.m. in the westbound lanes of Glenwood Road near I-285, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation. About 12 hours later, the DeKalb Department of Watershed Management announced that crews repaired the broken line.
Officials said water should be restored, and anyone experiencing brown water should run their faucets to clear the internal plumbing.
Figuring out which pipe needed to be repaired was not an easy task, according to County Communications Manager Andrew Cauthen.
“It’s not like one valve can turn off several miles of pipe,” he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It’s a bunch of valves ... and they have to isolate and figure out where they need to make the repair.”
Cauthen said the cause of the break remains under investigation.
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