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Pipe Breaks Still Haunting Fort Lauderdale. This Time It’s A Water Main.

Joe Cavaretta
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Sun Sentinel
Divers work under water Sunday on a broken water main in the south fork of the New River in Fort Lauderdale.

Residents in two Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods are being told to boil their tap water after yet another pipe break.

It’s the latest one to haunt Fort Lauderdale, a city scrambling to fix a crumbling network of underground water and sewer pipes after years of neglect.

This time, a water main ruptured under the south fork of the New River on Saturday, forcing the city to issue yet another boil-water order.

Read more at the Sun Sentinel.

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