Two minutes before midnight on Tuesday, the D.C. emergency alert system said that a water outage had been reported on Capitol Hill. Quoting information from DC Water, the city’s water utility, it said the problem was on C Street SE, between Delaware Avenue and South Capitol Street SE. An earlier alert from the 3200 block of Pope Street SE said about 40 homes and two hydrants were affected by a break there. Another, in the 1900 block of Massachusetts Avenue SE involved water supply to three apartment houses, with a total of 150 units. “Fairfax Water reported early Tuesday that it had 12 “active water main breaks” on its hands.

Source: Washington Post January 03, 2018 07:07 UTC