Water main bursts on Glencairn

[attach]3502[/attach]Sam Lew awoke to a small wall of ice at the bottom of his Glencairn Avenue driveway this morning, courtesy of a broken water main.

“What happened was the water splashed up on the snow and it got about four inches high — I couldn’t get my car out,” Lew said.

Around 8:30 a.m. he was nearly done hacking it clear so he could get to work, even as water continued to bubble up from a hole in the ground directly across the street from his home, just east of Dufferin.

“Last night it was a small hole and now it’s a crater,” Lew said.

He first discovered there was a problem when he tried to flush the toilet around 11 p.m. last night and found there was no water.

His water eventually came back on, but a police crew was forced to place a pylon in front of the gusher around midnight, as water continued to pour into the street.

A city worker on site said the problem won’t be fixed until a maintenance crew gets the greenlight from phone, gas and hydro companies.

He also said city crews were busy with similar problems around town and probably wouldn’t be able to fix it until tomorrow.