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Was only matter of time before another Boylston Street water main would shreve, crump and blow

By adamg on Fri, 12/13/2024 - 4:19pm
Big hole in the ground where the water main burst

Photo forwarded by Chris Gervais.

For the second time in two days, a water main along Boylston Street has burst, this time in front of the new office building going in where Shreve, Crump & Low used to be at the corner with Arlington Street, but possibly extending as far down as the benighted and condemned Tannery building several doors down.

Chris Gervais forwarded photos from co-workers across the street of the scene around 1:30 p.m. - about 45 minutes after Boston firefighters first responded to the scene and immediately put in a request for Boston Water and Sewer Commission crews to do something about the broken 12-inch main.

Some of the water, naturally, poured into the Arlington Green Line stop, where it got on the inbound tracks.

Just yesterday, a BWSC main burst on St. Cecilia Street, just off Boylston, cutting off water to Berklee College.

The scene outside the Tannery:

The scene outside the Tannery

The long view:

The view down to Arlington Street
Neighborhoods: 
Back Bay
Free tagging: 
Boylston Street
Arlington Street
BWSC
Water main breaks


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Comments

By Lee on Fri, 12/13/2024 - 7:14pm.

… and left my footprints in the sandy sludge. It has slaked a bit since those pix.

Those workers must be about frozen by now.

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By iMatthew_ on Sat, 12/14/2024 - 4:11pm.
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By APB on Sat, 12/14/2024 - 11:53pm.

n/t

By anon on Fri, 12/13/2024 - 9:19pm.

Speaking of the Tannery, what is the status of that poisonous disaster? It's like a premeditating murderer from a horror movie. Fucked up infrastructure throughout this city crumbling and ignored because of beauracratic crap.

By anon on Sat, 12/14/2024 - 9:13pm.

The Tannery has nothing to do with the city or a bureaucracy; the decay is the product of an allegedly discriminatory owner who abandoned this building, and has abdicated any responsibility to maintain it (to the degree that BFD has posted a "do not enter" sign if it ever catches fire).

Hicham "Sam" Hassan's the owner in question. He was barred from owning/operating any commercial real estate enterprises going forward, as of 2021.

By adamg on Sun, 12/15/2024 - 5:09pm.

Racist barred from ever opening a store in Massachusetts again for the way he treated Blacks, others in his Back Bay stores.

By anon on Sat, 12/14/2024 - 8:18am.

Give the T credit the trains kept moving. The problem will be when the water that flowed into the station leads to a mold problem behind the walls.

By Tim Mc. on Sat, 12/14/2024 - 10:13pm.

n/t