EXCLUSIVE: Water main break floods Mackay Place home, closes Xaverian
The city’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) seems to have dropped the ball on yet another water main break in the neighborhood – one that, this time, not only inconvenienced residents but also paralyzed an entire portion of the community.
According to Mackay Place resident Diana Madden Carroll, the trouble — which included adjacent road closures and the closure today of Xaverian High School — began Saturday morning, January 13.
“I was in New Hampshire on vacation and I got a call from my neighbor saying that water was gushing out of our back door,” said Madden Carroll, whose home sits between Narrows Avenue and Shore Road, adjacent to Xaverian.