HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — It’s been a busy weekend for Houston Public Works after being called out to different water leaks throughout the city. The repairs caused some residents to be without water for several hours.
On Sunday, Houston Public Works told ABC13 that Houston Water was on scene making leak repairs at 12434 Wellington Park.
Houston City Councilmember Tiffany Thomas also posted about this situation and said there was a major water leak in the 77072 zip code. Thomas said residents in and near Wellington Park were out of water because the valves were turned off to make the repair.
Camille Madery was one of those people impacted.
“My husband took all the open containers, the big water jugs and ice chests and things to a friend’s house this morning, filled them all up with water, and brought them back so we could at least fill up the tanks again to flush the toilets,” Madery said.
Around 4:45 p.m. Sunday, ABC13 saw crews open a water valve at a house near the leak.
Neighbors then confirmed to us that they had water again. Camille Madery said it took 24 hours for her water to come back on.
“You called and told us that you had heard the water was turned back on,” Madery said. “So we quickly tried it, and sure enough, the water was on. So we were pleasantly surprised.”
That was not the first water leak ABC13 reported on this weekend.
Thirty minutes east there was a different one on Saturday in the Idlywood neighborhood. It caused a pavement collapse, according to HPW. Video showed a car getting stuck inside the hole.
The department said it was reported to them through 311 and that Houston Water crews responded.
Harris County Precinct 6 said the water was shut off until it could be repaired.
On Sunday, the hole was filled. Residents confirmed to ABC13 that they had water again that morning.
Councilmember Thomas said the director of HPW told her there were three major water leaks throughout the city the department was working on Sunday.
The communities that ABC13 spoke with ultimately felt frustrated over the situations, but they were grateful to end the weekend with their water back on.
“Dishes are already done. Laundry, yeah, that’s going to get started little by little,” Madery said.
ABC13 spoke with people that said they were frustrated they had no alert or notification of what was going on.
Thomas said moving forward, council member offices need to know about these emergencies to get information out to the public. She said she’ll bring that up during her quarterly meetings with Houston Public Works.
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