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Troy Crews Deal With Large Sink Hole On City Street

Crews will be working to repair a large sink hole in a street in Troy,  where another infrastructure failure last month cut off the water supply to nearby communities.

Officials in Troy believe the pavement gave way after a sewer line collapsed under Campbell Avenue early Sunday. The street remains closed as workers used a camera Monday to get a better look at the damage below ground in an effort to determine what repairs need to be made.  Mayor Patrick Madden:  "We encountered a lot of mud and a pretty significant root ball. So we pulled the camera back out, but the pipe that we saw looked pretty good as far as we got. We're gonna jet out the mud and cut out the root ball."

The sink hole repairs come five weeks after water main break in another Troy neighborhood sent millions of gallons of water flowing onto a street. The break in the century-old cast-iron pipe shut off water supplies for two nearby towns in neighboring Saratoga County.

Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.
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