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Water leak once again closes DeKalb Avenue
The scene Thursday morning on DeKalb Avenue after a water main break. On Friday morning, a leak once again closed the major thoroughfare.
A popular northeast Atlanta thoroughfare was shut down for the second morning commute Friday when water began leaking again from a main that burst early Thursday.
As much as 3 feet of water inundated DeKalb Avenue at Elmira Place early Thursday before city crews located a valve and shut off the flow of water into the pipe.
Emergency repairs were completed around 8 p.m. Thursday and the road reopened.
Scheree Rawles, spokeswoman for Atlanta's Department of Watershed Management, had warned that repairs to the roadway would make single lane closures necessary beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, but all lanes were shut down before daybreak Friday when water began leaking again.
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