Water main break causes flooding near Turner Place, Ithaca NY
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Road ClosureAccording to the dispatch call, a major water main break near Turner Place and East Spencer Street caused flooding and blocked traffic. Authorities are working with public works to locate valves and manage the water, which may affect nearby basements.
Audio|Heard on: Tompkins County Fire/EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
Engine 1. East Glen Street, near East Spencer Street,
00:13
had multiple callers reporting,
00:16
water flowing across the roadway, states it looks like a water pipe break.
00:24
Once, engine 1.
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East Glen Street,
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right near the PD and near East Spencer Street.
00:33
A lot of water in the roadway.
00:36
Caller reporting, it looks like a water pipe break.
00:40
It's 23-04.
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Thompson's 901.
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9-0-1-1-0.
00:57
According to PD, it's going to be closer to Turner Place.
01:05
Closer to Turner Place.
01:06
All right, yeah, we're just coming to the intersection at Cuga and close.
01:18
Hopkins from 91.
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Good.
01:26
Could you have, are you able to get a hold of DPW? This is definitely water mixed, right? And I believe it could have been able to make.
01:37
Sure, if we're working on that now.
01:45
3 from 9-1 on off-line.
01:48
6.3 is that outside.
01:53
Uh,
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yeah, it is a pretty significant main break at the intersection of Turner and Spencer.
02:05
It's over here for a little bit, walking traffic and trying to mitigate this.
02:09
It's probably some basements on Spencer as well.
02:12
Uh,
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they're working...
02:14
getting DPW in but I think I saw some water valves up at station two.
02:18
I don't know if it's worth us trying to stuff some of these valves up as well as water now.
02:26
If you can at least pinpoint the valve where you think it's going to be the most work that's the best help for them and I'll give contact a call at DPW.
02:37
Okay, yeah, I've got some of the valves,
02:42
both upstream and downstream from what appears to be the break located, so,
02:47
yeah.
02:49
Copying those valves, all right, Turner, you said.
02:57
Tompkins from 9-01.
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911.
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Getting contact with DPW, you might want to also have them get a full truck.
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They're going to have a bunch of quick spots once this starts to freeze.
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This is.
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Is it.
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One from 6-3 on outside.
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Location mentioned:
Turner Pl & E Spencer St, Ithaca, NY 14850
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