Is there some kind of water outage in South Philly?

Submitted by crackitty25 t3_zs4udz in philadelphia

Hey guys I live on the edges of Newbold in South Philly. I noticed my water seemed to be shut off around 5pm. I took a shower around 4 pm. So it clearly happened very recently. I texted my landlord about it and he said he's on the road traveling but it's happening to "everyone" and to try to contact PWD. I assume when he says everyone he mean the whole building.

I went to the PWD website hoping there would be some kind of announcement sort of things, like "Customers in X area are experiencing a water outage due to a pipe bursting" something along those lines but they didn't have anything like that and there's basically an emergency hotline or their regular office hours phone. I don't think this is an emergency, and it's after hours, besides water is included in my building so it's not like I have an account.

Anyone happen to know anything about this?

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ouralarmclock t1_j16mck1 wrote

My kid just told me he walked by a burst pipe near melrose.

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crackitty25 OP t1_j16znmu wrote

Off topic but what is the deal with that? I use to get breakfast there with my parents when they visit cuz it was so close. I was never especially fond of the food there but it will do, but my parents are old and all the nice eateries and pubs on Passyunk scare them because they can't deal with anything modern.

My dad asks me about it every time they visit. We're forced to go to Ihop now because they can't handle anything else.

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crackitty25 OP t1_j17avhz wrote

That's kind of a shame, I feel like the location was good and there's parking, the food wasn't bad it just wasn't anything special either. If they just bothered to spruce the place up... oh well.

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AbsentEmpire t1_j1bhwn8 wrote

We should allow mixed use residential over commercial to be built there with the understanding we get the diner back.

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roguefiftyone t1_j18q9bv wrote

Water Department had Jackson Street blocked off at Broad last night around 7

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crackitty25 OP t1_j1acoqw wrote

Ah makes sense. Water is back on now tho thank god.

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katsai t1_j16b6nx wrote

I know there was a water main break in Manayunk earlier today but haven't seen anything about south Philly.

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JesusOfBeer t1_j18e024 wrote

Wtf is Newbold… that’s not real

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ISOtrails t1_j1kqmvo wrote

I looked it up once after Philly Brewing named a beer after the neighborhood- it’s a fairly new neighborhood- like spring arts

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JesusOfBeer t1_j1losc1 wrote

It’s Point Breeze… Newbold was a recent fabrication

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