Work continues to repair water main breaks in Atlanta.
In Midtown Atlanta, officials expect water service to return to normal between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. Wednesday.
Throughout Tuesday evening and overnight, crews slowly turned on taps in the area.
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Gustavo Alvarez lives in Midtown, near the water main on 11th Street, where crews removed an 80-year-old pipe and installed a new one Tuesday.
“We had water until this morning. Last weekend we had water. And this morning we had no water for a few hours,” Alvarez said Channel 2’s Candace McCowan.
And while the area is still under a boil water advisory, Alvarez said he was taking his chances.
“I quit yesterday,” he said.
In Northwest Atlanta, Davida Bryant continues to cook and buy water.
“For us to brush our teeth, take a bath, cook something,” she said. “We are used to doing this, because we have been doing it for a few days now, but we have not had a word to break it, so we still do it, and it costs us a lot.”
The water main in her area is at MLK Jr. Dr at Bakers Ferry Road.
The break was caused by a contractor’s error.
Atlanta Watershed also responded to a water main break at Armor Drive and Clayton Drive in Northeast Atlanta.
And then to Beecher Road in southwest Atlanta, where crews made quick repairs.
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And with water mains continuously down for days, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will help develop “a plan to assess and evaluate the city’s aging infrastructure.”
But that will take some time.
As of the early hours of Wednesday, some places are without water.
In areas where repairs have been made, it can take up to 24 hours of water testing before people can use their water without boiling it.
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