City employees work to fix a broken water main Monday at the corner of South Oakland Avenue and West Cherry Street in Carbondale. Water was reported to be seeping through the cracks of the street Friday but the issue was delayed until the next business day. Cliff Pleasure, a 21-year resident of Carbondale who lives at the corner of Oakland and Cherry, says a solution would be to replace the pipes instead of fixing the old ones. The water main has been repaired and the street is open to traffic.

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