An East Dallas neighbor says a city water line leak has gone unrepaired for more than a month, sending water through his driveway and down the street as Dallas Water Utilities reports increasing water loss from leaks across the city.<\/p>\n
The leak, just off Lakeland Drive at the end of San Fernando Way, has left water collecting in the street with algae growth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a leak that we\u2019ve had from the main water line since July 31,\u201d Andrew Rohe said.<\/p>\n
After determining the leak was not coming from his own water line, Rohe said he filed multiple 311 service requests with the city of Dallas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey came out later that evening and immediately determined that it was their main that was leaking, and since then, it\u2019s kind of been crickets for us,\u201d Rohe said.<\/p>\n
For 39 straight days, Rohe said water has continued to flow through his driveway, down the curb and into a brackish pond at the end of the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels like a pretty big waste of water, especially because we\u2019ve been in a considerable, I\u2019d say, drought for the last month and a half or so,\u201d Rohe said.<\/p>\n
The problem is not isolated to San Fernando Way. The Park Row neighborhood in South Dallas experienced a similar continuous leak for three months before it was repaired in late August, according to The Dallas Morning News.<\/p>\n
Dallas Water Utilities recorded 128 main breaks and 310 neighborhood line leaks in June and July alone.<\/p>\n
In a June memo, the city reported more than 10 billion gallons of real water loss last year, about 200 million gallons more than the previous year. Much of that loss came from larger water main breaks, even as Dallas Water Utilities invests in replacing aging pipelines.<\/p>\n
Back on San Fernando Way, Rohe said he is hopeful markings on the street mean city crews will soon arrive to locate and repair the leak.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot to necessarily say any one specifically is at fault for it,\u201d Rohe said, “Really, I just want them to come fix it.”<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC DFW. AI tools helped convert the story into a digital article, and an NBC DFW journalist edited it again before publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An East Dallas neighbor says a city water line leak has gone unrepaired for more than a month,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-429467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}