water-main break

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Fri Nov 8 15:40:42 EST 2019Arlington water main break causes commute chaos, closes schools; boil advisory issued
A 36-inch water main break closed down Chain Bridge for several hours Friday morning and caused water pressure issues that triggered a boil water advisory across Arlington County, Virginia, and parts of Northwest D.C.

• A boil water advisory has been issued for Arlington and a swath of Northwest D.C. mainly along Wisconsin Avenue, which officials say is a precautionary measure. (See map below for specific locations)
  
• Arlington County Public Schools are closed Friday.
  
• Around 9:40 a.m., authorities reopened Chain Bridge but Glebe Road remains blocked between Va. 123 and Military Road. The bridge was closed for about four hours before it reopened.
  
• DDOT reported an additional road closure on Canal Road at Arizona Avenue Northwest due to the water main break in the vicinity of Chain Bridge and Canal Road Northwest.
  
• Traffic impacts were felt around the area.
  
  The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th photos show N Glebe road before the last curve approaching Chain Bridge. I come through here at 30mph (48kmph) with the brakes on. (Just beyond that last curve is where a dump truck overturned a month ago.) I take a slightly different route home, up a very steep dead-end street. I'll be able to come down that way to get to the bridge for my commute in this afternoon.
  
  The boil-water advisory covers about half of Arlington. Fortunately, not our neighborhood, and our pressure is fine.
  
  We're going to be patching servers tonight, so I expect I'll be coming home very late. (We can't even start until late.) And I expect I'll see a crew out there working on this, still at it in the wee hours. (This has got to be messing up some holiday-weekend plans. ☹)
  
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