LYNN — A water main break at around noon Monday left a block on South Common Street under several inches of water.
Tawonia Queeley, who lives in an apartment overlooking the flooding, noticed the break around 1 p.m.
“My husband and I were watching TV in the living room,” said Queeley, a third-grade teacher in Boston who has lived at her South Common apartment since 2012. “He noticed a bunch of yellow trucks. We looked out the window and we saw all this water here.”
By 2 p.m., the flooding stretched from the corner of South Common Street and Pleasant Street, nearly to Market Street. The water covered the entire 10-foot-wide South Common Street sidewalk, and extended another 10 feet into the street.
The water flowed around the corner, before emptying into a drain halfway down Pleasant Street.
A Lynn Water and Sewer employee who was on the street blocking traffic reported that they had begun to receive calls from the Fire Department and the Police Department about the break around noon, and that his department was now working to repair the break.
A stream of water flowed from the street down into Queeley’s driveway. She reported that another neighbor had been helping to drain the water, to prevent any flooding of their apartment building.
“We keep the cars in the garage downstairs and it’s not flooded, thankfully,” she said.
She also reported that a similar break had occurred last December on the Lynnway, but that there had never been a similar break on South Common as far as she could remember.
This is a developing story.
