Water Spurs Near McGill Campus After Second Water Main Breaks

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Montreal’s city officials are all worked up on water problems which arose on Monday morning, as water flooded downhill along the eastern side of the downtown McGill University campus is not returning to the broken 48-inch-diameter main, that channels fast-moving water into the downtown core, but has in fact leaked from another significant position.

A spokesperson of central-city, Jacques-Alain Lavallée, explained the situation on 9 a.m., explaining that a recent leak has actually sprung from a 54-inch-diameter main, i.e. linked with McTavish Reservoir, resulting in ankle-deep water running on campus. A temporary dam, that was paved using snow, recycling bins and sheets of plywood, has been redirecting a fraction of the water flow entering from near the north entrance of the MacConnell Engineering Building to municipal storm sewers near the corner of University and Milton Sts. Lavallée clarified that the second leak have sprung under or near University St., south of Pine Ave. W. She explained that “what my colleagues have told me is that some dams were installed on University, stone dams, in order to make sure the (second) leak was contained between Sherbrooke (St. W.) and Pine Ave.”

Reports confirm that the water set free from the second main has been working its way to University St., while the gigantic water flow resulted from the first broken pipe sweeps into the city core late on Monday afternoon. Lavallée alleged that “we will start to excavate this morning” under University, and “probably finding out what caused all this.”