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Mayor Mark A. Smith announced that contractors working on the Port Authority’s “Raise the Bridge Project†damaged a sewer main on West 5th Street, west of Kennedy Boulevard last week. A Port Authority contractor cut into an active sewer line by accident, because the sewer line was designated as “abandoned†and not in service on their contract plans.
Heavy rains on Thursday evening caused some basements to flood with sewage, due to the inability of the severed sewer main to drain water from the area.
