""It's leaking thousands of gallons of water an hour and has been doing so for nearly a month," O'Shea said. "Chicago Department of Water Management has gone above and beyond their responsibility here offering their support to Robbins who, certainly initially, failed to address this.""
""The water main that is leaking is the property of the Village of Robbins and is their responsibility to repair," said spokesman Megan Vidis. "The Chicago Department of Water Management is pumping the leaking water to prevent it from ending up in Chicago residents' basements near the leak.""
""Until the state comes up with an agenda as far as what they are going to allocate to the local level municipalities, until we have an agenda from higher up, I don't have a deadline," Bryant said when asked when this main break will be fixed. State legislators "just found, what, $19 million I believe for housing immigrants?""
Thousands of gallons of water have leaked from a broken water main beneath railroad tracks at 2600 W. 119th St. for about a month. The broken pipe supplies water for the Village of Robbins and is therefore Robbins' responsibility for long-term repair. The Chicago Department of Water Management has been pumping and offering support to keep leaking water from entering nearby Chicago basements. Robbins lacks the approximately $250,000 needed for the repair despite having received other state grants and recent infrastructure work. Robbins requests additional state and Cook County funding for local water infrastructure upgrades.
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