Roadbed subsides, flattens sewer line in Warren

Situation on Wood Street, near Jamiel's Park entrance, deemed an emergency; crews working overnight

By Ted Hayes
Posted 12/7/18

CB Utility crews are making an emergency repair to a sewer line on Wood Street after recent road subsidence flattened a section of sewer line and is affecting another.

Town officials called in the …

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Roadbed subsides, flattens sewer line in Warren

Situation on Wood Street, near Jamiel's Park entrance, deemed an emergency; crews working overnight

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CB Utility crews are making an emergency repair to a sewer line on Wood Street after recent road subsidence flattened a section of sewer line and is affecting another.

Town officials called in the Bristol contractor Friday afternoon after a remote camera inspection of the sewer line revealed a bowed section, as well as a flattened 14-foot section of 8” gravity line.

“We’re treating this as an emergency,” Warren Town Manager Kate Michaud said around 5 p.m. Friday. With a gas main near the affected section of sewer line, “we don’t want that line to be in any way compromised.”

Ms. Michaud said the roadbed has been subsiding recently, but the initial slow pace accelerated late this week, leading to the video inspection.

Ms. Michaud said town officials don’t yet know what to attribute the settling to, but added that contractors for the Bristol County Water Authority replaced a section of water main in the area about a week ago.

She said the town’s engineer, Woodard and Curran, is involved, and the town is keeping in contact with National Grid and the water authority.

“The main priority right now is public safety, and then we’ll worry about what it’s attributed to,” she said.

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