City officials have taken offline the 84-inch water line serving East Baltimore and downtown, substituting a much smaller line to serve area customers.
The main was shut down after it was exposed by a sinkhole that formed on the grounds of the Montebello 1 Water Filtration plant in northeast Baltimore.
Shortly before midnight, or four hours after The Brew reported that officials were worried about a potential water main break, the Department of Public Works said it had “activated” a 48-inch water main while it worked to repair the eroded stormwater tunnel that caused the sinkhole to appear.
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