HOUSTON – A water main broke in northwest Houston Thursday morning, flooding parts of the streets.
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A spokesperson for Houston Public Works first told KPRC 2′s T.J. Parker over the phone that a contractor working for a telephone company hit a water line. For that reason, many telephone lines were also seen on the ground.
Crews were seen making repairs in the Washington Avenue Corridor starting around 4 a.m. on the corner of Yale and Center Street. Video shows the flood waters are quite deep but it’s also unclear how long the water had been flooding.
We’re also told several cars and businesses were flooded as a result.
The main gushed thousands of gallons of water until about 5 p.m. Thursday.
Public works remains out at the scene to clean up the mess.
Several restaurants in the area were forced to close temporarily.
“With our patio that has brought in mud, trash and whatnot and when we pulled up this morning we couldn’t even get in the business because there was ankle deep water standing everywhere,” said Alex Moghaddam, owner of La Vita Coffee and Burger Vibe.
The business owner says he is certain the crew responsible for the break was contracted through a company that CenterPoint contracted. We reached out to CenterPoint, but have not heard back.
Houston Public Works is assuring water customers their bills will not be affected and there will not be a boil water notice.
Water is expected to come back on for customers in the next few hours.
