DECATUR, Ga. — Crews in DeKalb County have fixed the latest of several burst water mains over the last month.
The DeKalb County Department of Watershed Management reported a 10-inch broken water main on Glendale Avenue in Decatur on Friday afternoon, but have since completed their repairs.
Neighbors told Channel 2′s Eryn Rogers they lost water after midnight Friday and got it back just before 5 p.m.
“It was only ever a trickle, then it got totally dry, and we had no water,” said Lee Pritchard who lives on Glendale Avenue.
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Earlier this month, a massive 30-inch water main broke near Clairmont Road, leaving thousands of people without water for days and 20,000 others under a boil water advisory.
Several water main breaks have been reported across DeKalb County and the City of Atlanta in the last few weeks, including one that shut down Peachtree Road as water shot more than 12 feet into the air.
Al Wiggins the Commissioner for the Department of Watershed Management said the pipe that burst on Peachtree was 108 years old.
“It’s been through a series of repairs and fluctuations of weather,” Wiggins said. “It’s outlasted it’s life cycle, so it failed.”
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Some people say they’d support paying more to get metro Atlanta’s infrastructure updated.
“The need for infrastructure renewal is ever more present and more important to think about,” Pritchard said.
Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management said they’ve had 56 pipes burst in recent weeks.
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