Water Main Break Disrupting Service

A water main ruptured Sunday morning disrupting service to many homes in the Belvoir Hills area of East Ridge.

According to a Tennessee American Water Co. worker, the 12-inch pipe in the 3900 block of Fountain Avenue gave way at about 1 a.m. Crews were on the scene and able to isolate the disruption to about 25 homes in the Fountain Avenue area by 8 a.m.

The construction worker did not know how long it might take to repair the water line and gaping hole in Fountain Avenue. “It’s extensive,” the construction worker said. “It may take some time to get this done.”

Fountain Avenue is closed from Marley Way to Belvoir Hills Drive. West-bound traffic on Fountain is being rerouted up Belvoir Hills Drive allowing construction crews to repair the line and road.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.