Water main break floods Tukwila hotel parking lot
Feb 2, 2012, 7:03 AM | Updated: 8:04 am
Water flowed for about four hours Thursday morning from a broken water main in Tukwila before utility crews were able to close the right valves.
“It’s a city water supply line,” said Martin Grisham, Tukwila Fire Department spokesman. “But where it ruptured is in the parking lot of one of the major hotels down there.”
The water flooded a hotel parking lot about a foot deep. There were about 100 cars in the lot and some had water up to the floorboards.
Grisham said the leak was in a 5-foot diameter main. Crews from Tukwila and the city of Seattle worked to turn off the flow without a major impact on customers.
No word yet on what caused the leak.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
