WPCNR MAIN STREET From The Mayor's Office. March 25, 2004, UPDATED 8:45 P.M. E.S.T.: Paul Wood of the Mayor's Office reported today that County Parks Department workers noticed an uprooted tree in the vicinity of Walworth Avenue and Colvin and the Bronx River Parkway, had snagged a sewer line, the root wrapping around the pipe, apparently causing a break in the pipe seam, causing a slow, odoriferous leak.

Wood reports that a White Plains Department of Public Works crew has repaired the pipe and it is back to normal. Stan Johnson of the DPW, Wood said, attributed the leak to the uprooting and the root which had grown around and sewer line caused the pipe to leark at the joint. Wood said the seam had cracked  and the city called the County Health Department as precaution...and that things were back to normal as of this afternoon.

Donna Green of the Westchester County Department of Communications reports this update that another leak in the sewer is further down the line in Scarsdale: "Apparently at first it was believed that this leak was caused by a WP sewer and some trees that were uprooted.. WP DID fix that. But it has now been determined that was not the main problem... Scarsdale officials have now been notified. The Department of Health, has put dye into the river that is green, so if it seems green to people it is NOT the sewage doing that.