How to Use water main in a Sentence

water main

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  • The water main burst and flooded the street.
  • Bagley said this is the third water main break in the past four days.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022
  • This is the most recent water main break to occur in the area over the past few days.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
  • The water main break occurred in the two eastbound lanes on the south side of Highland Road.
    — cleveland, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Mulcahy said the goal is to start construction of the water main next year.
    — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2023
  • And that was before a water main break forced them to relocate in the middle of the night.
    — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Crew members repaired the water main overnight and recharged the systems.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
  • Those who weren’t killed were drowned when a burst water main flooded the wreckage.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Officials at the time suspected the mound was due to a water main break.
    — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Video from the scene showed three water main breaks occur in the area within a two-hour time span Monday.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
  • When the water main burst last Friday, officials had to divert water to the west side of the base.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The water main is being replaced from roughly Ohio Street to Edgewood Drive, in both the 2nd and 7th wards.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Sand and rocks covered the pavement, which cracked and warped when the water main broke Saturday.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
  • That translates into about 1,400 miles of water main pipes throughout the city.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The extended heat and lack of rain has caused the ground to shift in Fort Worth, Texas, causing nearly 200 water main breaks over the last month.
    — New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • Though a sprinkler system was in place when the fire began, nobody had bothered to hook it up to the water main on the street.
    — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • No cause for the water main break had been determined Sunday, Bagley said.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The village's recent project to replace the water mains was in part to reduce such breaks, said Meister.
    — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The violent vertical thrusts of the quake ruptured gas lines and water mains.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Video shot by Hayden Linfoot shows the impact of a water main break inside the arena.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Also, the replacement of the South Sedgewick Road water main, which will take place prior to the street’s resurfacing.
    — cleveland, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The woman let the man inside and, instead of the water main, the man directed his attention to a storage room.
    — cleveland, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The service lines that would be replaced extend from the water main, which runs beneath the street, to the various structures.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The water main that broke was made from 1940s-era cast iron, but the city has even older pipes, so the cause was not necessarily age.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 2022
  • Town manager Frank Dye said the water main break occurred in the town’s supply line to the chlorine tank at the Bowersox Well.
    — Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 8 Dec. 2021
  • After the water main is fixed, crews will have to backfill the site and pour new concrete to restore the street, according to the department.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The westbound portion of the roadway was closed Jan. 27 due to a water main break that had caused icy conditions from heavy water flow.
    — cleveland, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Yorgey was reporting a water main break when in Dunbar.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Authorities said the sinkhole was caused by a water main break.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • A couple living on South 43rd Street, who declined to share their names, was concerned about where those two water mains would be built.
    — Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2023

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