Four homes were declared uninhabitable Saturday near the spot where a water main broke in the West Portal neighborhood last week, a San Francisco Public Utilities Commission spokeswoman said Monday.
The 16-inch, cast-iron pipe ruptured shortly after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday on 15th Avenue just south of Wawona Street, sending water and mud down the hill and damaging 23 homes and 12 vehicles, according to the agency.
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San Francisco city officials threw a party at a school gym in Visitacion Valley last Saturday to celebrate a return to normalcy after a yearlong sewer project wrapped up on Sunnydale Avenue.
Three days later, the neighborhood was back in turmoil after a large water main broke, flooding homes, cars and a school campus — including the gym where the party was held.
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A water main rupture that sprayed a San Francisco intersection with water this morning occurred because the pipe is old and made of materials no longer used by the city, a water department official said.
The 2-inch plastic main ruptured at about 5:40 a.m. at Mission and Randall streets, said Tyrone Jue, spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
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A water main that ruptured and created a 40-square-foot hole in a busy set of SoMa intersections threatened to keep commuters on their toes today.The 100-year-old pipe that pumps millions of gallons of water to customers created an 8-foot-deep pit near 290 Division St. on Saturday night, briefly closing down the 10th Street onramp to northbound Highway 101. Witnesses reported an 8-foot-high geyser as a result of the burst.
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