UPDATE On Buckling Road, Water Main Break In Nearby Alamo

About 50 East Bay Municipal Utility District customers are without water this morning following a water main break reported on a major thoroughfare in unincorporated Alamo, an EBMUD spokeswoman said.

The break was reported at 6:57 a.m. on Danville Boulevard near Hemme Avenue, a San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District dispatcher said.

The break was on a 10-inch cast iron pipe and “quite a lot of water” has leaked out of the pipe, which had not been shut off as of 8:45 a.m., EBMUD spokeswoman Abby Figueroa said.

There has been property damage reported as a result of the main break, but Figueroa did not immediately have details on what was damaged.

California Highway Patrol Officer Ron Simmons said the roadway was buckling near where the pipe burst.

CHP officers have been in the area this morning to help control traffic at the scene, Simmons said.

Figueroa said the customers without water this morning are along Danville Boulevard between Hemme and Camille avenues. She did not know when service will be restored to the affected customers.

• On Tuesday, the problem was in Walnut Creek: Repairs Completed On Walnut Creek’s Water Main Break

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Previous post from this morning:

A water main break was reported this morning on a main thoroughfare in unincorporated Alamo, a San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District dispatcher said.

The break was first reported to the fire district at 6:57 a.m. on Danville Boulevard near Hemme Avenue, according to the dispatcher. East Bay Municipal Utility District crews are at the scene, the dispatcher said.

Someone reported the main break was causing the roadway to buckle, California Highway Patrol Officer Ron Simmons said.

CHP officers are at the scene to help with traffic control, Simmons said. No other information about the incident was immediately available.

--Bay City News