Newark Beth Israel Medical Center temporarily suspended visitation.
This is NOT your typical water main break," he wrote. Belleville Mayor Michael Melham said on Facebook midafternoon the township would request bottled water from the state "if the problem cannot be addressed in a timely fashion." The Newark Board of Education canceled all summer school programs.īelleville's fire department was pumping water to Clara Maass Medical Center, officials there said. In Newark, the North, West, South and Central Wards had all been affected. “It literally absorbed the entire vehicle,” he said, but added the woman driving the car was able to escape the car before it sunk. Iacono said a car was swallowed up by a sinkhole after the 140-year-old pipe ruptured and a street caved in around 6:30 a.m. Kareem Adeem, director of Newark's water and service department, previously told Gothamist that by late morning, officials had closed off most of the valves in the area of the break, which sent water gushing through the park and flooded nearby streets for hours. Workers were trying to divert water into different directions to take pressure off the broken pipe, so they could isolate it and conduct repairs, Iacono said. But Anthony Iacono, Belleville’s township manager, clarified to Gothamist that many could still see low water pressure, and the main hadn't yet been fixed as of 5 p.m.Ī boil water advisory had been extended into Wednesday morning.
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Belleville issued an update on its website late Tuesday afternoon, saying service to most customers in that township would have service restored by about 5 p.m. Officials said most of the affected area was experiencing low water pressure, though most residents still had water.Įarly Tuesday, officials estimated the water main break in Essex County's Branch Brook Park would be repaired by the end of the day. Newark city workers were going door-to-door with water Tuesday after more than 100,000 people were affected by a 72-inch water main break that compromised service in the city as well as in nearby Bloomfield and Belleville.
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