DECATUR, Ga. — A major water main break swamped a Decatur neighborhood after days of heavy rain.
Channel 2's Lauren Pozen was on Coventry Road Saturday morning where crews were working to fix the line.
A CSX crew working on a rail line accidentally bored a hole through the line Friday morning, sending a river of water and mud down the street.
Water was temporarily shut off and has since been restored.
"It’s a slow trickle basically since yesterday morning and probably a little less now than then it was yesterday," one resident said, "but still not enough to shower or run the dishwasher or stuff like that."
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Coventry is blocked off as crews work to repair the broken water line. At noon, why this isn’t an easy task and the impact it’s having on the neighborhood. pic.twitter.com/o3dE5EBlyv
— Lauren Pozen WSB (@LaurenPozenWSB) August 4, 2018
Before DeKalb crews showed up to repair the main, neighbors built a wall of sandbags to protect their homes. Resident Gretchen Serrie told Pozen it was inspiring to see her neighbors coming together.
"It’s just been the most incredible experience of neighbors helping neighbors with a terrible catastrophe," Serrie said.
In a news release late Saturday afternoon, DeKalb Watershed Management said: "Water flow and pressure is being restored this evening to all affected residential, commercial and medical customers. There were limited water outages during the incident."
The county said anyone impacted by this incident should contact the DeKalb County Watershed Department at 770-270-6243.
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