COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) is working to repair a major water main break along Broadmoor Valley Road, that looked like a gushing geyser on Tuesday afternoon.
CSU says a water main break burst open just before 2:40 p.m. along the street, and they had a crew on scene shortly after. They say within 30 minutes they had the water turned off. The utility says 14 customers were left without water service as a result of the break.
In that time however, as the water was shot dozens of feet into the air, it was raining down upon a stretch of four homes along Woodbridge Drive, which runs parallel to Broadmoor Valley Road, down a rock-covered hill. You can see what one viewer captured in phone video below.
There, homeowners say they were dealt varying amounts of property damages, as the spectacle of spouting water doused …