City employees worked Monday to repair a water-main break in the Bodo Industrial Park on Turner Drive.
Durango officials learned of the broken pipe around 11 a.m., and they expected to have it fixed by early evening, said Steve Salka, director of utilities. Bodo Park businesses, south of downtown and west of South Camino del Rio, didn’t lose water, but some experienced lower water flow.
“The ground shifts, you know, with freezing and thawing, and sometimes you’re just unlucky to have a pipe that bursts,” Salka said.
He said some of Durango’s pipes need replacing. The city raised sewer and water rates this year by 5 percent to generate more revenue for the underground infrastructure.
“We’re trying to get things fixed,” he said. “But the city’s old. The city – they put the pipes in the ground in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s – and a lot of those same old pipes are still in the ground.”
