Water main break floods Central Park Avenue in Scarsdale; boil water order in effect
The break occurred late Sunday morning and forced traffic into a single lane for drivers traveling both north and south as crews work to contain the damage.
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Crews were hard at work on Central Park Avenue in Scarsdale Monday morning, after a water main break caused flooding and a boil water advisory throughout the Town of Greenburgh.
The break occurred late Sunday morning and forced traffic into a single lane for drivers traveling both north and south as crews work to contain the damage. The work was being done specifically between Marion Avenue and S. Healy Avenue. In a Facebook post, Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner says the pipe that broke was installed before 1954.
About 1,000 people near the Greenburgh–White Plains border were affected. In response, the Westchester County Department of Health issued a boil water advisory effective immediately through Tuesday. The advisory covers areas between the Sprain Brook Parkway and Central Park Avenue, including the Central Park Avenue corridor north of Jackson and Fort Hill avenues and south of Underhill Road. It also included neighborhoods between Central Park Avenue and the Bronx River Parkway, as well as all streets on both sides of Central Park Avenue between Old Army Road and North Healy Avenue.
Residents in affected areas are instructed to bring all tap water to a rolling boil for at least one minute before drinking, cooking, washing dishes by hand, or brushing teeth.
The main break is expected to be fixed by Monday afternoon, but Feiner tells News 12 residents should try to boil their water until Tuesday to be safe. He adds he already has plans to improve the town's response if something like this were to happen again
"Going forward, if we have a situation like this, we should've opened up the community center and let people shower," he said. "We should've had better plans, but nobody's perfect, and we're going to learn from our experiences."
Anyone with suggestions on how the town can approve any future responses to similar situations can contact Feiner directly either by email at pfeiner@greenburghny.com or by phone at (914) 438-1343.
