Clog traffic on this road. Delia goncalves joins us live from the scene with more on the break and the sheet of ice that is there too. Delia . Reporter right, we just learned moments ago that the crews who are here have located the water main break. They are locating the pipe via the valve rather and just trying to get to the valve so they can shut off the water. Of course they have to dig through all the snow and ice that is covering the valve. But in the meantime, yeah, sheet of ice here on river road. And you can see the trickle of water that is now coming down flowing down wilson lane and pooling on to river road. So your outbound lane of river road covered in ice and slush and periodically, were seeing a salt truck which is on standby periodically that salt truck will come out into the lane and treat the roads. So expect delays if you are on outbound river road at wilson lane. Now heres another problem because of the cold, crews say its going to take a little longer than typical b
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