ST. LOUIS – Water was turned back on for neighbors around McCausland and Chippewa on Friday after more than 24 hours without it due to a break on a waterline.
“No water and it is very hard to live without it,” said Georgia Johnson. “It took me back years to the way I grew up in Greece.”
She hasn’t been able to flush toilets or take a shower, but with the summer heat beating down outside, she’s sharing drinking water with her plants.
“I was using some of the water that I bought yesterday to put on my flowers,” said Johnson.
Johnson and her neighbors get their water from a pipe that runs under McCausland.
“What we’ll do is put in a new length of pipe with clamps on either side to join it to the existing pipe. Then we’ll go through the process of disinfection and flushing and putting it back to service,” said Curt Skouby, Director of Public Utilities.
Skouby said the same intersection was shut down last August for a break to the water line that runs under Chippewa.
“A lot of these breaks are random and unpredictable. I’m not sure that we have anything particular going on here that is causing these, but it is something that we will look at to see,” said Skouby.
