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UPDATE: Main Break Disrupts Minneapolis Water Service
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minneapolis officials say water pressure is back to normal for most residents and businesses after a break in a 3-foot water main flooded downtown streets.
Officials say the water is safe to drink.
About a half-dozen buildings near Thursday's break are still without water service. Crews will work through the night to repair the ruptured transmission line.
Around 2:30 p.m., private contractors working on a development project struck and ruptured a line that delivers water to a large part of Minneapolis. City crews isolated the broken water main, so water pressure has returned to normal.
About 14 million gallons of water flowed out of the system.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved)
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