Manayunk Homeowner Struggling To Get Help From City After Main Break Leaves Him Without Heat, Water

By Kimberly Davis, CBS Philadelphia

January 04, 2021

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — No heat and no urgency. A family is struggling to get help from the city after a pretty bad water main break.

The Manayunk resident’s insurance won’t cover the water damage since the city is at fault. But so far, he says the Philadelphia Water Department has been less than helpful.

It wasn’t how John Burns planned on spending his new year, but this is what his Manayunk basement looked like Sunday after a water main broke near the 200 block of Hermitage Street.

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