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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Cleanup efforts continue after a massive water main break flooded Columbus Avenue in Jamaica Plain on Tuesday.
Traffic was reduced at the intersection of Centre and Ritchie Streets Wednesday morning as crews dug their way to the broken pipes to assess the damage.
Stephen Mulloney with Boston Water and Sewer Commission told WBZ NewsRadio that this is likely to become a “full day” worth of repair.
“This is a major route here in Boston,” he said. “The patch work, even if it’s a patch job, will take some doing.”
Several properties nearby were also flooded when the burst of water rushed out from underground.
“It was like a river going through here,” Angel Pena, a superintendent of a building, said, adding that was one of the worse water main breaks in the area that he’s ever seen.
Boston Fire District Chief Joseph Walsh said it was a transmission pipe in charge of moving water from one side of the city to another that broke.
“It is several feet in diameter [with] high gallon per minute flow,” Walsh said.
The cause of the break is under investigation.
WBZ NewsRadio’s James Rojas (@jamesrojas.bsky.social) reports.