SAN ANTONIO – Updated at 11:04 a.m. Friday:
San Antonio Water System crews fixed a broken water line on a U.S. Highway 90 access road on Tuesday, but its grand reopening arrived on Thursday afternoon.
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A SAWS spokesperson said Wednesday night that repair work on the access road was “wrapping up.” On Thursday, the spokesperson told KSAT that the repairs to the access road have been completed. It is now open for normal traffic.
On Tuesday, SAWS said its crews repaired a 24-inch water main ruptured by a non-SAWS fiber optic drilling contractor on May 16.
The damaged main has been replaced. As of Wednesday night, crews were continuing to lay asphalt.
The spokesperson said the full U.S. Highway 90 eastbound access road near Ray Ellison Boulevard is expected to open on Thursday.
The work is connected to a water main break that happened on the morning of May 16. The break caused traffic delays and affected water flow at two nearby Southwest Independent School District campuses.
Kriewald Road and Big Country Elementary schools were without water for a portion of the day on May 16, but water was later restored.
On May 17, SAWS said road crews had to dig more than 20 feet along U.S. Highway 90’s eastbound access road to replace the damaged water line.
In a May 19 email to KSAT, the spokesperson said SAWS crews “had to expand the excavation area” to make their repairs.
“Because we had to expand the hole into the access road, we are also rebuilding that according to TxDOT specs,” the statement said.
Once repairs are complete, SAWS said it will work to recover the costs of lost water and the contractor’s emergency repairs.
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