The city will start working on a water main break at 7051 Southridge Avenue. Nearly 300 properties will be without water for an estimated 10 hours starting at 7 a.m. Southridge Elementary School will not be affected.
The area of affected properties includes nearly the entirety of the Southridge neighbourhood. Affected streets are:
- Eastview Street
- Grayshell Road
- Southridge Avenue south of St. Anthony Crescent (excluding Southridge Elementary School)
- St. Andrew Court
- St. Andrew Place
- St. Anne Crescent
- St. Dennis Place
- St. Kevin Place
- St. Lawrence Avenue west from the 8200 block
- St. Lawrence Place
- St. Mark Crescent west of St. Matthew Place
- St. Mary Crescent
- St. Mary Place
- St. Matthew Place
- St. Patrick Avenue south from the 7600 block
- St. Thomas Place
- Vista Ridge Court
- Vista Ridge Drive
- Vista Rise Road
- Vista View Road
The area surrounding the main, built in 1992, will be excavated to allow crews to access the break. Motorists are asked to use an alternate route, although local single-alternating traffic will be permitted.
Residents can prepare for the outage by filling pots and jugs with water for cooking and drinking and filling bathtubs with water for flushing the toilet with a bucket. A toilet will flush when approximately four litres of water is poured into the bowl.