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WATER MAIN

KFOXTV-
Construction crews working at Ft. Bliss hit a water line causing a water main break to burst 30 feet in the air, spraying water onto a main roadway. The water main break happened near the intersection of Fred Wilson Drive and Marshal Road around 12:30 p.m. A passerby told KFOX the water was shooting about 30 feet into air and landing on the roadway. A man’s car windshield was broken because of the heavy impact of water falling on his car. Construction crews said they were digging and hit the pipe, which caused the water main break.

WIS News 10-
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - A water main break has shut down part of Huger Street in downtown Columbia. A contractor was drilling in front of the BP at the corner of Huger and Blossom streets when he hit a 12-inch water main. It caused an eruption, and busted part of Huger Street. The City of Columbia Water Works advises the water customers on Huger St., between Gervais St. and Catawba St. to boil their water for at least one full minute prior to drinking or cooking.

POWER MAIN

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. —
A construction contractor working on the west end of town hit a power line early Monday afternoon, knocking out power for a few hours to about 1,000 customers and causing a temporary traffic shutdown on Oak Ridge Turnpike, Electric Director Jack Suggs said. The outage occurred when a contractor operating a self-propelled rock drill hit a power line, creating an electrical arc that melted the wire, Suggs said.

ABC-
More than 2,000 homes and business across Mackay were without power this morning, after an underground cable was damaged. An underground boring machine struck the 33,000 volt cable between Hume and Tennyson Streets at 11:00am AEST and the power was restored within 30 minutes. Supplies to the city, East Mackay and South Mackay is currently via an alternate station while repairs are carried out on the damaged cable....

GAS MAIN

PNW Local News-
For the second time in three days, construction crews working near Skyline High School broke a gas pipe causing a leak that required the closure of Southeast Eighth Street. Crews working on excavation at the site hit the four-inch plastic pipe, causing a cloud of dirt and gas and forcing the evacuation of staff from Skyline and nearby homes while crews checked the gas levels in the cloud, Sammamish Police Sgt. Bob Baxter said. The cloud did not have dangerous levels.

On Monday, an excavator hit the pipeline 10 feet away from Thursdays break. The road had to be closed while the leak was capped on Monday as well.