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Southwest Portland Water Main Break Floods Homes, Cuts Off Water
About a dozen homes in Southwest Portland are without water while others flooded after a water main break early Monday morning.
PORTLAND, OR — Around a dozen homes were left without water while others had too much of it as a water main broke in Southwest Portland. The break flooded several homes starting about 1 a.m. on Monday.
The break happened on the 2100 block of Southwest Fairmount.
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The Portland Water Bureau reports that the broken main was a 75-year-old cast iron pipe. they believe that age was a factor in the break.
Residents will be without water likely until the repair is fixed,
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