Main breaks shut down business

Some residents in the area of the Perth Street-Brock Street intersection may be without drinking water until later this week following two water main breaks.

And for one popular area restaurant, the disruption is more than an inconvenience.

City workers responded to a main break at the corner of Perth and Brock Streets around 6 p.m. Monday, said Brockville environmental services director Peter Raabe.

Once they had repaired it, they noticed a second break about 10 metres away from the first, he added.

Workers were still at the scene Tuesday morning and hoped to have the pipe fixed by the end of the day.

There are a few residents and businesses affected at this point, said Raabe.

They include a handful of residents who are without water services, he added.

It could take 48 hours for those people to be able to drink their tap water again once the service is restored, because the water must be tested for toxins.

We have to have two consecutive (clean) samples, said Raabe.

They won't have to wait for non-drinking uses of the water.

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Main breaks shut down business