Metro Vancouver Regional District crews are back in Vancouver Friday morning to fix the broken sewer main that spewed effluent onto the street and into False Creek Thursday.
Just before 6 a.m. pooling sewage could be seen on Columbia Street near West 2nd Avenue. Six to eight inches of the effluent submerged the road before the road was closed and crews got on scene.
By 10 a.m., Metro Vancouver had contained the leak and the effluent had subsided, however, the regional district confirmed the sewage had made its way into nearby False Creek.
Crew members tell CityNews Friday they won’t know much more about the damage to the main until around 12 p.m.
Their focus is around an area of the pipe that sits approximately three to four feet below the surface of the road, crews shared. The plan is to excavate around the pipe and then analyze the damage to see what’s wrong with it.
Fresh water continues to be added to the nearby wetlands to improve water quality in the area, Metro Vancouver says.