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2012-07-20 at 16:04

Water main break leaves big mess for Eaton’s building businesses

By tbnewswatch.com
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Businesses in the basement of the old Eaton's building are cleaning up after a broken water main caused extensive flooding.

Three-to-four inches of water covered the entire 50,000 square-foot basement of the building.

City crews were able to repair the break, and clean-up crews have been able to remove all of the water. 

Dave Karasiewicz is the director of the Definitely Superior Art Gallery. He has no estimates on the amount of damage.

Other businesses that spoke with Thunder Bay Television News reporters said they didn't sustain much damage and mostly have a big mess to clean up. 

Karasiewicz added that it will take about six weeks to clean up the gallery and repair the damage. 

The gallery is normally closed in August, and he does plan to have the business back open for September.

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Chaos says:
City infrastructure downtown is falling apart, but city has 59 million to spend so it can add new infrastructure for out of town developer to construct condo's that on'y 5% of population can afford...backwards as usual.
7/20/2012 6:09:18 PM
Pandora says:
Another sign of a crumbling infrastructure?
7/20/2012 9:17:59 PM
wayne says:
perhaps they should sue the City
7/20/2012 10:10:08 PM
glock9 says:
Did this flooding reach any of the jam spaces that are below the eatons center, alot of invested music equipment down there would be a huge loss.
7/21/2012 7:14:34 AM
whodo says:
Crumbling infrastructure...everywhere...

BUT Planting $10,000 trees...you heard right, $10,000.00 a tree, I believe it is 30-40 of them.
Where?
Along Algoma St. between Bay and John St. in front of What Councillors Business?
Conflict of Interest ever declared? No.
All the trees in other commercial areas seem to be doing just fine and they never cost anywhere near that much.
When you hear Calvin Brooks big ideas you know your going to pay BIG. Does he know anything about crumbling infrastructure?
7/21/2012 10:48:55 AM
unknowncronic says:
that water bill is gonna be a high one!
7/21/2012 11:35:52 AM
commonsense says:
This is just another example of our crumbling infrastructure, while our Admin. stashes money away in the "RenewTBay fund" for their pet projects.
IT"S TIME to start renewing our Infrastructure. No more pie in the sky projects that we cannot afford.
Soon insurance companies will not insure businesses and homeowners in TB for damage resulting from poor Infrastructure.
Stop hiring out-of-town consultants who just want our money. Our city knows the work that needs to be done. Make a plan, commit to it, and get it done!
7/24/2012 12:05:39 AM
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