“Main Street is back open and we’ve got service restored,” Jim Logan, Hamilton’s executive director of infrastructure, who oversees the city’s utilities. “We are still working on finding the exact location the water came in, but we’ve got it narrowed down to an area on Park Avenue. But everybody is back in service right now.”
A water main break sent water into the gas lines and disrupted service to customers on Main Street, many of them businesses between B and D streets, who have been without natural gas service since Thursday.
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The problem started with one customer Thursday night, followed by dozens on Friday.
Logan said about 75 people from the city and a contractor have been working non-stop to restore service and isolate the problem.
Logan did not rule out another service outage.
“Just depending on the size of the water leak once we find it, we might have to so something to throttle the water back to get it fixed,” he said. “But we won’t know those details exactly until we find it. Once we isolated the water from coming into the system, instead of focusing on fixing that right away, our objective changed to let’s get all of our customers back on line because it’s so cold.”
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