Lewiston Water & Sewer Division Supervisor Tom Freitas pulls a barricade back into place Monday morning after letting a dump truck through Pond Road. “We’ve been out here since 3 this morning after this water main broke,” he said. The excavator is digging the tar where the water blew it out near Randall Road. “There are about a dozen homes without water right now,” Freitas said. The road is expected to be closed for the rest of the day between Randall Road and Grove Street. “Getting tar in this cold is gonna be tough,” Freitas added. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Lewiston Water & Sewer Division’s Randy Gauthier removes a ladder from a hole Monday morning before putting it in the shoring box he would climb into to prepare to replace a section of a water main on Pond Road in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal