Melrose DPW Tackling Post-Blizzard Problems
The Melrose Department of Public Works is addressing a couple significant post-blizzard issues, including a water main break near Upham and Rowe Streets.
The Melrose Department of Public Works is tackling a couple significant post-blizzard issues, including a water main break near Upham and Rowe Streets, according to a city press statement. "There is a major water main break at Upham and Rowe (Streets)," reads the statement issued at about 6 p.m. Saturday. "Some DPW staff is being diverted to that water main break." DPW crews could be seen at work on the water main break at roughly 2:30 p.m. Saturday. "National Grid marked the street (with) orange paint. The DPW dug up the street (with) a jack hammer (and) backhoe," said Melrosian Karen Willis in an email to Melrose Patch, who observed the work being done by DPW. "They then jumped in the hole and dug up some more dirt (with) a shovel; …
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Shane Egan
12:17 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
For the first 18-24 hours of the storm(Friday morning to Saturday early morning, it seemed like we were hearing the plows every hour or so. The roads, while covered with snow, seemed like they were good enough for emergency vehicles should they be needed. Then, by around Noon on Saturday until now, nothing...The road is still covered with the same two inches of packed snow. I live on a steep hill… more ›