Water main break leads to huge mess on Regina street

Cleanup efforts were ongoing Tuesday for residents in a northwest Regina neighbourhood.

A water main broke behind a home on Faunt Bay, leading to sludge and water covering the street and seeping into homes.

The City of Regina said the water main broke around 3 a.m. Richa Poworski said she woke up around 4 a.m., to her basement having more than 2 1/2 feet of water in it.

“Based on what the disaster cleanup crew has said, I’ll probably need a new furnace, new water heater, new washer (and) new dryer. Everything I had down there (in the basement) is going to need to be replaced,” Paworksi said.

“It’s frustrating but I’m trying to take it with a grain of salt.”

She said it’s not exactly the type of welcome to the neighbourhood she was looking for; she and her aunt both bought places on the street less than a month ago.

“There was feet of water out on the street,” Paworski said. “It looked like there was a flash flood, it was pretty shocking to come out and discover that.”

Evelyn Low said she woke up in the morning to a lot of noise.

“I looked in my yard and my driveway and the street around my place, oh my goodness, it was just muddy. Mud, mud mud,” Low said. “It was a real mess, a big mess.”

She said she has to wait for the City of Regina crews to finish their work before she can start cleaning up her yard.

The city said it was going to take more than a day to complete repairs. Residents who had their water shut off were put onto a temporary water source.