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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.
By Mike Morris
April 18, 2014A 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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