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Vernon Daigle, background, pitches in as crews from the Lewiston Water Department clear Daigle’s driveway on Pleasant Street in Lewiston on Tuesday. Daigle’s driveway and yard were flooded when an eight-inch water main broke at 11:45 p.m. Monday at Pleasant and Valley streets. Fifteen feet of pipe blew out as ice prevented the water from being turned off. “Valves, gate boxes were frozen. Everything was frozen,” said a water department employee. “What a mess,” said Daigle, who had some water in his basement and rocks all over his front yard. The rushing water pushed Daigle’s neighbor’s trash 200 feet down the street, said Daigle, who lives at 352 Pleasant. “I didn’t know anything about it until I woke up this morning at 8 a.m.”
Tom Freitas of the Lewiston Water Department uses a torch to free up frozen rocks from Vernon Daigle’s driveway on Pleasant Street on Tuesday morning. The rocks washed into Daigle’s driveway and yard when a water main broke at Pleasant and Valley streets late Monday night. Yards were flooded along Pleasant and Heathwood Lane all the way south to Hillmount Drive.
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