Cars to pour down E. 9th Wednesday, officials say

The 36-inch water main that burst last week and caused millions of gallons of water to gush into downtown Cleveland was replaced yesterday, but it will be two more days before traffic flows on E. 9th St. Mayor Michael R. White said yesterday that the reopening of the street would be delayed until Wednesday morning because of greater damage to a nearly century-old sewer that ran underneath the burst water main. City officials said they were still unsure what caused the rupture or what the total cost of the damage would be.

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Repair of water main expected to take 5 days

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http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/c14subb.ssf

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"Don't blame old lines for flood in Downtown Cleveland, experts say Friday, January 14, 2000

http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/

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http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002IqX

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 18, 2000

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So? Almost 5 years to the day- same thing, only slightly smaller line just a few blocks away- like MOST metro cities, esp in the NE US- the water lines in Cleveland are OLD- like 70 years..... Also, yesterday in a Cleveland suburb- a large line gave up the ghost- the downtown event overshadowed it.

-- lurker in chief (rienzoo@en.com), January 18, 2000.

They never even told the sheeples in their city that this was a y2k glitch. You notice how nothing is a y2k glitch?.. Where is the integrity in journalism?

-- Butt Nugget (catsbutt@umailme.com), January 18, 2000.