Water Main Break Will Require Road Work [Video]

Update at 3 p.m.:

Connecticut Water Company work crews said they were optimisitc that most of the work on the broken water main could be completed Tuesday and that, if all goes as planned, water to the houses on Middle Beach West would be restored by sometime Tuesday afternoon.

Original story:

A water main break was reported around 6:37 a.m. at Island Avenue and Middle Beach West.

The water is bubbling up from a hole in on Middle Beach West and flowing into a storm runoff drain and into property on the north side of Middle Beach West right at the intersection of Island Avenue.

Dispatchers said Tuesday morning that the problem does not appear as though it will have an effect on traffic going to and from Island Avenue Elementary School, which is further north near the intersection with Boston Post Road.

Work on the problem was getting underway by 7 a.m., with two workers from Connecticut Water Company evaluating the problem. One of the workers said their initial evaluation indicated that road work would have to be done to repair the problem, and that the work could take several hours or up to a day.