Water main break leaves 60 properties without service in Mayfair

Welcome back to the news live at noon. We brought you this as breaking news early this morning on Good Day Philadelphia. This was quite a headache for residents in Mayfair. You can see right there, this is a water main break, part of the roadway buckling, cracking, and the water was certainly flowing this morning. The bottom of your screen, you can see some yellow tape. Looked like early indications the police came out to the scene, put up the yellow tape, and they were waiting for the water department. and the streets department. So what's happening at this hour? Let's get to the ground. Jennifer Lee will pick up the story from there. Jen, good afternoon. Hey, good afternoon, Thomas. So we're here on the 2600 block of Elbridge Street in Mayfair, and you can see Philadelphia water workers. They are out here trying to replace that broken water main. Actually, if you headed up closer in that direction. You could see the broken large pipe, and we did confirm with a spokesperson with Philadelphia Water Public Affairs. They say that workers got on site to investigate and to begin the repair process. They found a leak. On the 8-inch water main, and the water main was shut down, affecting about 60 properties that are still without water since early this morning, and crews are working as quickly as possible to restore water service, and they do expect the repairs to be completed by later today. And I did have a conversation with the workers a couple times just to ask questions about this repair process. They say the water main leak. Actually caused the pipe to burst, which is why we're seeing some of the damage out here with the road buckling. Obviously, they had to open up the road to investigate, find the damage, and now they're in that repair process. But before the crews could arrive, we saw through Sky Fox that Elbridge Street. Practically turned into a raging river. Neighbors, obviously, were very surprised to see all of that on their neighborhood street here in Mayfair. They also don't have access to drinking water right now, toilets, all of that that we take for granted. They do not have access to at this point. But hearing that the repairs are going to be completed by later today, A lot of people were happy to hear that because sometimes The repairs and the damage to the infrastructure, obviously, it's an estimate and you don't know how long it's going to take. But they were happy to hear, even though the road will remain closed for longer, they were happy to hear that the water will be restored by later today. But nonetheless, a lot of people woke up this morning extremely, extremely surprised to see, again, that river rushing down Elbridge Street. Thomas. Yeah, you look outside. Certainly something you don't want to see. We saw neighbors quickly moving their vehicles and trash as well. Bit of a headache for the morning as you're preparing, not having that running water, but it is encouraging news to hear that they're going to have that completed by this evening. Jennifer Lee on the ground for us. Thank you. I know you'll have another update live at four.