Crews are trying to repair a massive water main break that left some 20,000 Edison, New Jersey residents with little or no water pressure.
EDISON, N.J. -- A massive water main break Thursday in New Jersey is causing problems for tens of thousands of people. Crews have been working to repair the water main in Edison and restore full service to thousands of homes and businesses that were left with little or no water pressure. Officials blame aging pipes and frigid tempsThe 20-inch water main broke at around midnight Thursday and sent water gushing from the ground just off Woodbridge Avenue near Ben Franklin Elementary School.
I assure you, all of our crews, along with our emergency crews, are working as rapidly as possible to fix this,' Edison Mayor Sam Joshi said. Joshi said some of the pipes date back 80 years.Business resorts to rinsing dishes with bottled waterBusinesses at a Route 1 shopping center about a mile north of the water main break were operating without any water service at all.'Businesses and residents along Route 1, Woodbridge Avenue, Route 27 are all impacted.
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