Despite neighbors' efforts to stop the leak, water had been spewing water for a couple of weeks, ever since it thawed out from the Christmas freeze.
A leaking water line in Fifth Ward has neighbors upset and reportedly dealing with low pressure. It's been spewing water for a couple of weeks.A leaking water line in Fifth Ward has neighbors upset and reportedly dealing with low pressure. It's been spewing water for a couple of weeks.Despite folks' best efforts to wrap a shirt around the pipe and contain it, the problem didn't go away.
Eyewitness News reached out to the City of Houston's Public Works Department about the unwelcome waterfall. We're told this is an abandoned line, so it isn't active, and shouldn't be affecting the neighbors' pressure. When asked if it once belonged to the city or a private business, they couldn't find a record of it. Regardless, the city stuck to its word and sent crews out to repair it.
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