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ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. – A water main break in St. Charles does significant damage to part of historic Main Street and leaves some without water for several hours.

It all happened on North Main Street right by ‘Tony’s on Main Street.’ Authorities first got the call for the break around 6:30 p.m. Crews worked through the night into Monday morning making repairs, and the work is far from done.

Nick Galla, the public works director for the city of St. Charles, told FOX 2 that the broken part of the main has been fixed, and water service has been restored to those in this immediate area who were impacted. However, the street is far from fixed.

Courtesy: Mike Schneller

Besides the big hole in Main Street, part of the brick street buckled from the break.

Galla also shared that the bricks which are now out of place will have to be relaid by hand. Businesses and locals in the impacted area still had water for a while Monday night after the break, just at a reduced pressure.

Service was then shut off in the immediate area where the break happened overnight while the main was fixed. We’re told the main that broke was a 10-inch main.

Galla believes the combination of a very old pipe and extreme heat led to the break. We’re told there was no geyser of water shooting into the air from the break. Instead, water just covered part of North Main Street.

Galla explained that repairs to the street could take a week, but he hopes to have at least one lane of traffic open there possibly as early as later Monday.

“We have our street crews coming after our water division crews are done here – and they’re going to be working all week to restore all the brickwork that’s on Main Street,” Galla said. “So the first thing we’ll do is fill the hole where the pipe is right now. We’ll work on the bricks at that location – and then we’ll fix all the other bricks that have been displaced from the water.”

Galla said that the businesses there can open, and people can use the sidewalks. He told FOX 2 that his crews are going to try and complete repairs as quickly as possible.

Repairs have to be done by July 4, because the holiday parade comes down Main Street.