A water-main break that cut off water to numerous businesses along East Green Bay Street was still being repaired late Tuesday afternoon, but water was expected to be restored before the day was out.
The break occurred just west of Airport Road early Monday, flooding the parking lot at Qualheim’s True Value, 1345 E. Green Bay St., and forcing a number of businesses west of the break to close their doors.
Businesses were affected as far west as McDonald’s, 1202 E. Green Bay St., where a line of cars expecting to visit the drive-through Tuesday afternoon instead encountered a notice about the water-main break and hopes of being open again soon.
Walmart, at 1244 E. Green Bay St., was left without restroom facilities and set up portable toilets outside the store.
Mike Schuler, president of the Shawano Lake Sanitary District Commission, said so many customers were affected by the break because it is a dead-end water line. If water has to be shut off at some point along the line, all of the customers beyond that point lose their water.
The line crosses Green Bay Street past McDonald’s and serves an area extending to some homes behind Pick ‘N Save, he said.
Schuler said the sanitary district hopes to replace the dead-end line if it can get approval.
“We’re working with the DNR on getting a complete loop,” he said.
The district would also have to get right-of-way approval from several land owners to cross their property and would make use of the Mountain Bay Trail.
Schuler said the discussions with the DNR so far have not been successful.
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