Water main break

I was out walking the dog this morning and saw water bubbling up from the ground ahead of me like Poseidon was about to explode up through the pavement.

Pearl barked and sat down decisively. "I'm not going near that thing, whatever it is," she seemed to be saying. We went over to the other side of the street, but it was pretty slippery and muddy already by the time we crossed over.

They were still working on it at 8pm tonight. "We've fixed it," a utilities guy told me. "Now we're pumping chlorine into the water and testing it downstream—and waiting for the test results to come back on contaminants."

Nobody on the street lost water because the pipe that broke was carrying water to some more distant neighborhood.

"We got a clean shutdown," he said. Then I took the photo.