ST. GEORGE — Crews working on the new underpass connecting Red Hills Parkway to Red Cliffs Drive Tuesday got a drenching surprise at approximately 3 p.m. when a bulldozer broke into a 20-inch water main, sending water and mud cascading into the streets and over the sidewalk in front of the Red Cliffs Mall.
“We had a couple crews respond,” St. George City Support Services Director Marc Mortensen said. “It was a big break. Didn’t cause any damage to private property. They basically isolated the water, so currently no customers are out of water.”
Crews from the contractors involved in the construction project and St. George City banded together in isolating the line from leaking any more water and cleaning up the road and sidewalks.
The break was caused by the water line not being buried as deeply as the workers thought, Mortensen said, adding that the crews decided not to repair the line immediately.
“Given the construction still remaining, they’re going to leave that segment isolated,” Mortensen said, “and wait until they get some of their turning lanes in. Then, as part of the project, they’re going to have to relocate that water line to make it work underneath the road.”
Mortensen said clean up is expected to be completed by late Tuesday evening.
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“Given the construction still remaining, they’re going to leave that segment isolated,” Mortensen said, “and wait until they get some of their turning lanes in. Then, as part of the project, they’re going to have to relocate that water line to make it work underneath the road.”
Let’s go ahead and build the new road, pave it, then dig it up to fix the broken water line underneath. We will fill the brand new road back in and leave a little speed bump so everyone can see that we fixed it. Brilliant!!!! Why didn’t I think of that.
Anyone ever heard of blue stakes???
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You have a job? Don’t think so. If you do, it is a part time job that does not drug test. You simply have too much time on your hands. You account for over a third of all comments here, with your opioid induced diatribe.
lol, i’d say it’s over half
his comments i mean
they could even change the name from ‘stgnews’ to ‘Dump’s playground’, ahahaha