Some Houston-area residents are breathing a sigh of relief after waiting almost a month to fix a water break in their neighborhood.
FOX 26 Reporter Randy Wallace has more after speaking with homeowners who were affected.. Houston Public Works says the extraordinary heatwave and drought have made it difficult to fix leaks.SUGGESTED:Then we aired our first report on Thursday, August 24, that was 19 days ago.Houston residents wait almost week for city to fix ruptured water line in neighborhood
We emailed Public Works at around 3pm Monday afternoon. It could be a coincidence, but shortly after that crews showed up to fix it. FOX 26 Houston is now on the FOX LOCAL app available through Apple TV, Amazon FireTV, Roku and Google Android TV! "We actually had a couple of neighbors pumping water out of it to water their lawns," Harris said. "They were calculating 60 gallons a minute, just on the water coming down in this direction, which is probably only half of it. So maybe 100 to 120 gallons a minute, and it was flowing constantly 24-7."