Water main break floods homes, risks road collapse, Westford MA
Road ClosureA major water main break near Grove St caused flooding into several homes and severe damage to the road structure. Water entered basements, and the roadway was bulging and eroding underneath. Officials closed roads and set detours to manage the situation. Fire department assistance was requested due to flooding inside residences.
Audio|Source: Westford Police
03:58
Transcript:
00:00
What's UPA on Water Department? This is a substantial breach.
00:09
We're going to call and get an ETA standby.
00:12
Okay,
00:14
let them know. It looks like the entire main wind.
00:17
So they've got pretty much the entire pressure coming out onto Oak Hill.
00:25
Racees.
00:28
20 to 22.
00:31
In route.
00:33
Shut it down at O'Kill, divert everybody down towards NabNazis.
00:40
Please.
00:45
20, Wester.
00:47
Okay, 20, go ahead.
00:51
If you have highway come out, we're going to detour O'Kill around NabNazi by the Country Club for the time being.
01:01
Free seat.
01:04
What's your car, Tony?
01:07
Go ahead.
01:10
Water said that they're allowed 30 minutes, he couldn't give a better ETA than that.
01:19
Okay, okay, wait, right, put it, put it, put it.
01:25
We have water flooding into houses down here, too, to stay home.
01:31
So we see they did try and express back to them now.
01:39
Very good.
01:45
Twenty, four to twenty.
01:51
Go ahead.
01:54
I have some cones on my cruiser.
01:56
I feel like I can bring them off there if you need to help shutting more streets down.
02:03
Why don't you just come up here anyway and it's just with all this. This is a huge mess.
02:11
Greasy. West for coffee.
02:14
West for coffee.
02:23
Good.
02:26
Highways coming out. It's Lou. He'll be there in a few minutes.
02:30
Thank you.
02:36
All right, it looks like the source of the problem is going to be near Grove St.
02:44
The whole roadway is bowed up and kind of blown out and the water is washing away all the gravel and dirt underneath the roadway.
03:04
I'll uh I'll let highway know once so they get again.
03:16
I'll have track blocked off plane at Ockel.
03:25
Card 20, do you copy?
03:29
Copy, thank you.
03:33
Three feet.
03:36
Okay,
03:38
go ahead.
03:41
Could you call over to the fire station? I'm not sure if there's anything they're going to be able to do to assist, but one of the houses down here, I've got a resident reporting approximately three to four feet of water flowing into the basement.
03:53
I probably have two or three houses that are flooding out the basement right now, but I'm not sure if there's going to be anything they can do to assist.
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Near Grove St, Westford, MA 01886
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