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Broken Main Mars Miguel St.

January 10, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

Water Dept. trucks block off Miguel St. By Michael Waldstein
The water main break around 4:30. Photo by Chris Hardy.

 

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Neighbors living near Miguel and Bemis streest are without water this evening after a water main break sent a flood washing down the street at around 4:30 PM today, a San Francisco Fire Dept. officer on the scene told the News.

Firefighters on the scene. Photo by Chris Hardy.

The street is closed off at Miguel between Laidley and Bemis Streets.  Water is off in surrounding area. Crew from the San Francisco  Water Department arrived around 6:45.  They will dig up the entire block and replace and fix the water pipe. A Water Dept. worker on the scene said that the water pipes were probably the original ones laid down when the area was built up in the 1930s making them nearly 80 years old.

Water Dept.  worker Charlie, who declined to give his last name,  told the Glen Park News that in order to locate the break, workers used iron bars to listen to the gushing water; the louder the sound, the closer they were to the break.  The same technique has been used since the 1920’s.

The original street cobbles revealed by the water. Photo by Michael Waldstein.

 

The escaping water tore up the asphalt, exposing cobblestones underneath.  Charlie said  they were brought over from Europe as ballast on the ships.  There might even  be other layers of street even underneath the cobblestones:  On Howard St., there are four layers of street, each separated by several feet.  “You don’t know till you start digging”, he told the News

The water cascaded down Miguel all the way to Chenery Street. Multiple Water Dept. and Dept. of Public Works vehicles were on the scene, along with the Fire Dept.

San Francisco is awash in water main breaks right now – there are currently four in the City, Water Dept. crews said. B ecause of the cold winter, the water coming down from Hetch Hetchy is very cold and is causing trouble at the weak spots in the old pipes, they said.

By Bonnee Waldstein & Elizabeth Weise

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Meet one of the Greenway’s most diligent volunteers -- A Townsend Warbler as far as Google knows. Progress in removing invasive oxalis is going well, but work remains! As the sun comes out, please join us at the Glen Park Greenway Native Meadow (between Lippard and Brompton Streets) to carefully remove invasive oxalis plants. Email our oxalis remediation lead, Kathy Keller at greenway@glenparkassociation.org if you can help! ... See MoreSee Less

Meet one of the Greenway’s most diligent volunteers -- A Townsend Warbler as far as Google knows. Progress in removing invasive oxalis is going well, but work remains! As the sun comes out, please join us at the Glen Park Greenway Native Meadow (between Lippard and Brompton Streets) to carefully remove invasive oxalis plants. Email our oxalis remediation lead, Kathy Keller at greenway@glenparkassociation.org if you can help!
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Join us THURSDAY JANUARY 19 at the Glen Park Association Quarterly meeting. We'll be in-person at the Glen Park Rec. Center at 6:30 PM. Our agenda includes:

-- A special presentation from QuitCarbon,
-- Meeting the new owners of @canyonmarket ,
-- Learning more about projects at @sfrecpark & @sfpublichealth, and
-- Electing 2023 GPA officers.

Have you renewed your membership for 2023 yet? Help keep our neighborhood vital by joining today at www.glenparkassociation.org/glen-park-association-membership/
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Join us THURSDAY JANUARY 19 at the Glen Park Association Quarterly meeting. Well be in-person at the Glen Park Rec. Center at 6:30 PM. Our agenda includes:

-- A special presentation from QuitCarbon, 
-- Meeting the new owners of @canyonmarket , 
-- Learning more about projects at @sfrecpark  & @sfpublichealth, and
-- Electing 2023 GPA officers.

Have you renewed your membership for 2023 yet? Help keep our neighborhood vital by joining today at https://www.glenparkassociation.org/glen-park-association-membership/
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