Mass. water main break affects Boston, suburbs
Author: Jay Lindsay (AP)
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A "catastrophic" break Saturday in a relatively new, 10-foot wide steel pipe rendered the water undrinkable in Boston and more than two dozen of its suburbs, forcing Gov. Deval Patrick to declare a state of emergency.
The state issued an order for residents to boil water before drinking it in the 30 affected communities, which include 2 million people in 700,000 households.
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority was able to draw emergency water supplies from various reservoirs for bathing, flushing and fire protection. That water isn't treated for drinking, so the state issued the boil-water order.
Authority head Frederick Laskey called the break "highly unusual and catastrophic in nature," and said it came in a critical point in the system — a tunnel that's on the main supply route to Boston and delivers 200 million to 400 million gallons a day.
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