Waikiki road to reopen after main breaks
By Mike Gordon
Advertiser Staff Writer
Repair crews fixed broken sewer, gas and water lines in Waikiki today and were scheduled to reopen a portion of Seaside Avenue at 7:30 tonight, said Board of Water Supply spokeswoman Denise DeCosta said.
Richard Ambo • The Honolulu Advertiser
The problem began yesterday afternoon with a break in an 8-inch Honolulu Board of Water Supply feeder line to the Waikiki Trade Center.
A Honolulu Board of Water Supply crew works on a broken line under Seaside Avenue between Kuhio and Lau'ula avenues this morning.
Police closed Seaside Avenue between Lau'ula Avenue and Kuhio Avenue at 4:40 p.m. yesterday and were planning to keep it closed to traffic until repairs were made.
City crews cleared debris for several hours yesterday, but as they were digging a hole so they could repair the water line, they ruptured a gas line, DeCosta said.
It brought their work to a halt.
Steven Golden, spokesman for The Gas Company, said the workers broke a 2-inch service line that is used for two restaurants in the trade center.
Water supply crews had wrapped the line with tape by the time gas company crews arrived at 5:30 a.m., he said. Repairs to that gas line were finished by 7 a.m. followed by repairs to the sewer line that also was broken.
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