Broken water main causes headaches in Malta

A crack in a cast iron main near the intersection of South 1st Ave East and South 7th Street East last Thursday evening caused a small river to flow down several blocks of 7th Street East and left some Malta City Residents to be without running water for much of Friday.

The break in the main also left the Malta City Works team with a 13-hour workday on Friday as they had to rip up pavement, figure out where 70-plus year-old water shutoffs were and to dig an eight-foot trench to find the broken pipe.

"It was a hole about as big as my fist and then it cracked-out from there and deteriorated,...