WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. September 6. 2010 UPDATED SEPTEMBER 7, 2010:

The Department of Public Works confirmed to WPCNR this morning yesterday's small flood on Post Road was caused by failure of the main water line under East Post Road. The city has repaired the water leak causing minor flooding Monday morning on East Post Road, restoring service to Westchester One.

The Department told WPCNR today that it was not a feeder line to the empty former Frozen Ropes building as first thought, instead the break was in the main water line going down Post Road. It is the third failure of a major water main in the city in 8 months. Others  occured at Bank Street and Main Street, and most recently, Martine Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard. WPCNR has a call in to city hall to see if the city has a concern that multiple city water mains in the downtown may need replacement.

Previously White Plains Week the city news roundup show had noted that city water main pipes are only expected to have a life expectancy of 60 years.while mains installed in the mid-1800s have life expectancies of 100 years. With many of the pipes in the downtown installed in the mid-twentieth century the city may be facing recurring infrastructure proplems with their water manes, this being the third break this year.

Commissioner Joseph Nicoletti told WPCNR he suspecedt that a connector line leading from the city water main into the former Frozen Ropes storefront, now vacant, had failed as of about 10 A.M. Monday morning.  Nicoletti said the leak was noticed when water was seen bubbling up from the street.