Water line breaks in downtown square

Motorists and business owners were treated to a water show Monday morning Oct. 31, as a water line spewed water in front of the Van Zandt County Courthouse.

Canton City Manager Lonny Cluck said that the water on the road was caused by a busted six-inch asbestos cement line, that gushed approximately 1,200 gallons a minute into city streets.  A call around 8 a.m. in the morning alerted Cluck to the problem. City crews were seen throughout the day trying to fix the gushing line, with water filling up the gutters.

Cluck said that the line that busted was an “old line that the city has been trying to replace.”

“An AC line was very popular back in the 1960s, and that was what busted. If the ground shifts in any type of way, those AC lines will break. We probably had a full circle break on it. So, now we have water pumps pumping out the excess water until we can get down and see where it actually broke. Then, we will fix it.” 

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