Water line break hits Maricopa customers

A line break Sunday morning slowed impacted Global Water Resources customers in Maricopa. Some customers experienced only a lowering of pressure while other had practically no water all for a couple of hours.

According to Global Water General Manager Jon Corwin, there was a large water main failure and a leak of a “significant amount of water.” The main breakage was reported around 6:35 a.m. Sunday.

“We were unable to keep up with the pressure demand throughout the city of Maricopa,” Corwin said.

The company isolated the problem and restored pressure to the customers by around 8:30 a.m.

Customers closest to the distribution site were least impacted, he said. Those farthest away had the most noticeable decrease in water. “But it affected the entire city of Maricopa,” Corwin said.

Global’s delivery runs on a loop system, he explained, and they were able to send water through a “different set of pipes” to get water back to the customers. He said workers expect to have the main failure repaired in a week.