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Water
pipe bursts at Yorktown mall
Chicago Tribune—2/14
More
than two dozen stores in the Shops at Yorktown were without water
for several hours Thursday after a water line broke behind the
strip mall.
The
pipe burst around 4:30 a.m. and Lombard public works crews were
still working mid-afternoon, said Angela Podesta, utilities superintendent
for the village.
Though
the main mall at Yorktown Center was unaffected, the strip mall,
which houses about 30 shops, was without water, said Jim Romano,
general manager of Yorktown Center.
Mall
officials notified individual store managers Thursday. At Carson
Pirie Scott Furniture Gallery, employees discovered flooding in
the dock area that damaged some merchandise, according to Donna
Okain, an assistant store manager.
In
Frankie's Deli, the grocery section of the store remained open
Thursday but the deli was closed because employees could not cook
anything, manager Frank Conforti said.
Podesta
said Thursday's incident was the latest in a series of water-line
breaks. Last month, there were 18 in Lombard, she said.
"It's
due to the very cold weather," she said. "The frost
is getting deeper in the ground, so the ground shifts a little
bit."
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