127-Year-Old Antiquated Water Main Gives Way Beneath NYC's Times Square, Inundated Roadways and Subways Submerged While Cleanup Effort is Underway by Traffic and Engineering Management

Friday, September 1st, 2023, 11:33 PM reporting from Tuesday, August 29th, 2023, 9:47 PM-Manhattan NYC- Manhattan and NYC traffic and safety engineering maintenance has begun working underway for cleanup a 127-year-old water pain pipe beneath New York Times Square. The mayor (Eric Adams) gave the green light a go, to workers to clean-up the flooding that submerged a portion of the city with a gushing river of water. Flood stretched from midtown streets and the city's busiest subway station.

A 20-inch half-meter pipe gave way under 40th Street and Seventh Avenue at 3 AM and quickly provided submission friendly reminder of the chaos the antiquated infrastructure underneath the city's bunched-up streets.

Gushing water spewed spitted on the streets. It was only a few inches deep on the streets, but captured surveillance footage revealed a river of water cascading into the Times Square subway station down stairwells and through ventilations shafts. The water challenged the trenches the turned and that carry the subway tracks into mini streams and absorbed train platforms.

Circumventing streets were active during rush hour, but subway operations were frozen through much of Manhattan of the 1,2, and 3 lines, which work directly under the broken water main. Services are expected to be restored with delays by midday.

DEP crew workers for about an hour went to find the source of the leak and deactivate the water off, said Rohit Aggarwala, commissioner of New York City's Department of Environmental Protection.

Mandatory evacuation orders resulted in a aperture and a sloppy mess leaving trails of mud behind in the city's intersection where repair crews dug the heavy equipment to reach the broke section source of the water main.

Presently only current is town nearby businesses were left without available water to start their work day, Aggarwala stated.

A scientific study suggests that New York City has about 6,800 miles (10,900 kilometers) worth of water main pipes expanding from Times Square to Tokyo-and has spent decades upgrading the model version outdated water and sewer channels.

Breaks or rips in the lines occur when somewhere in the city almost every day, though the city said the 402 main breaks unprecedented happen the recent year were the secondary smallest figure of number on record to feature, and improved than expected average for a U.S. city if the capacity of the system is accepted into account.

Aside from the retrospective water main pipeline channel and sewer lines and subway tracks in the tunnels, the ground underneath Manhattan also contains a steam energy system and an electric system that co-depends on part components hidden buried over a century ago.

Setback breakdowns happen usually on a regular basis can be extraordinary. Back in 2007, an 83-year-old steam pipeline combusted toward the source of Grand Central Terminal Station, exploding a towering geyser spewed of scalding vapor and mud into the air, swallowing a low truck and on person dying.