Nearly 150,000 Montreal homes were put under a boil water advisory after a broken water main erupted into a “geyser” that transformed streets into streams, paralyzed traffic and forced people to evacuate from flooded buildings
A flooded basement apartment is shown following a water main break on a street in Montreal, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, causing flooding in several streets of the area. Nearly 150,000 Montreal homes were put under a boil water advisory on Friday after a broken water main erupted into a “geyser” that transformed streets into streams, paralyzed traffic and forced people to evacuate from flooded buildings.
Witnesses said that at its peak, a “wall of water” 10 meters high had burst through the ground, flooding the densely populated neighborhood. Residents donned rubber boots and waded through the water that streamed down the streets and puddled in intersections during the approximately five and a half hours it took to fully stem the flow.
The source of the flooding was a pipe more than two meters in diameter installed in 1985, officials said.
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