Water outage in east Ballard

Updated: A water main broke along 50th St. around 7 p.m., leaving hundreds of homes in east Ballard without water or with very low water pressure. Seattle Public Utilities says they received complaints in an area from 15th Ave. to 3 Ave., and from 50th Street on up north (they didn’t know the northern boundary.) By 8:45 p.m., water appeared to be restored.

We found this water crew along 50th working to get the water main back in service. “This happened a couple of years ago,” writes Jennie, who lives near 67th and Dibble and first alerted us of the outage. Other residents, like Nina who lives near the Post Office, said they experienced low water pressure. (Interestingly, we live in the affected area, but our water was fine.)