News Alert:

Water crews with the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities are responding today to a another water break in White Rock.

The break is on Rover Boulevard between N.M. 4 and Meadow Lane. Crews will be working in the middle of the road dropping the center lane north of Meadow to repair the water distribution line.

Motorists are asked to obey the speed limit and traffic control devices. It was not necessary to shut off water services for customers. They are backfilling and cleaning up the site. Crews estimate that by 5 p.m. they will complerte the work.

Los Alamos has experienced several water breaks recently. Wednesday, DPU reported a water break on N.M. 4 approximately one mile south of East Jemez Road (Truck Route). March 22 and March 23, DPU water crews responded to two other water breaks on N.M. 4 just east of Rover Boulevard. 

DPU Public Relations Manager Julie Williams-Hill said that the cause of today’s break remains unknown.

“We are still excavating to find and repair the Rover water distribution line,” she explained in an email to the Los Alamos Daily Post. “The (N.M. 4) water transmission line breaks were all related to one occurrence that happened last week when a pump control valve failed. The pump control valve converts the flow coming from the well pump to a low pressure that builds slowly until the pump is operating at full pressure into the system. When it failed, we had a slug of water that slammed the transmission line. The breaks weren’t revealed all at once.”