Fort Worth police said a water main break on Camp Bowie Boulevard has caused the concrete to buckle; the water department was notified. Water has been shut off in the area. The fix will likely take six to eight hours. The road will be barricaded, and traffic will be interrupted. The city was wait ing to coordinate with other utility providers. NBC 5’s Tahera Rahman spoke to Mary Gugliuzza with the City of Fort Worth. The road repair could take longer. “It probably will be Monday before we can make the road repair,” Gugliuzza said. “We have a 6-inch cast iron water main break,” Gugliuzza said. “It’s at the intersection of Horn Street and Camp Bowie Boulevard.” Gugliuzza said the issue is likely aging infrastructure – an issue the city has been addressing over the last year. Gugliuzza did not know the exact age of the broken pipe. “We have over 700 miles of cast iron water mains of various sizes, from about six inches up to as large as 36 inches in our system,” Gugliuzza said. ” We have roughly just under 200 miles, somewhere around 200 miles of Cast Iron Pipe that is either in design or in construction at this point in time. So we are making progress, but it’s just going to take a while, because you have to go through the engineering designs on the replacements before you can ever go to construction. There’s timing involved in that as well, and of course available funding plays a role in all of this as well.” The break was reported around 12:30 p.m. “It’s gonna vary slightly from year to year, but it’s usually somewhere between 85 and 90% of our main breaks each year are on cast-iron mains,” Gugliuzza said. The city will not know how much water leaked until the process is complete. The city is asking everyone to avoid the area for the time being. ...read more read less