HUDSON, N.Y. ( NEWS10 ) -Water in the City of Hudson comes through its plant and is then stored in a tank. It was on Thursday, the first night of Kwanzaa however, that Mayor Kamal Johnson reported water was being lost from that tank at an alarming rate.
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“The tank itself, there’s no issues whatsoever. What happened is, there was a cold snap that came through about a week or so ago and temperatures went sub-zero,” explained Robert William Perry Jr., Superintendent of Public Works.
That cold snap caused the pipes to snap. There have been close to ten confirmed buildings with this problem. “It’s not uncommon for buildings, especially unoccupied buildings or those that are being gutted for construction… Don’t have heat on it, to have their internal piping burst.”
Unoccupied doesn’t mean abandoned. City officials ask that anyone traveling for the holidays has someone check in on their home for damages.