Frankfurter Allee has been closed out of town since Wednesday morning due to a burst water pipe between Gürtel / Möllendorffstrasse and Alfredstrasse. The drivers of the around 25,000 vehicles that travel east there every day have to find other routes. The closure is expected to lead to traffic jams north of Frankfurter Allee in Lichtenberg and south in Rummelsburg for weeks. Especially in the evening rush hour, as already showed on Wednesday, when people are on their way in the direction of Marzahn-Hellersdorf and beyond the city limits.
At 6 a.m. in the morning, the fire brigade reported to the Berliner Wasserbetriebe that there was water on the Frankfurter Allee carriageway. Astrid Hackenesch-Rump, spokeswoman for the water company: “A drinking water pipe 40 centimeters in diameter broke.” The pipe runs at Alfredstrasse across under Frankfurter Allee and has been there since 1963.
Sabine Gudath
Through the burst pipe on Frankfurter Allee, the street is closed, it backs up out of town.
First of all, it was blocked off so that the water flowing out of the leak at a pressure of over 5 bar would not wash further under the street. However, there were no failures in the supply because water could be routed through a parallel pipe, among other things. The builders initially had difficulties in finding the exact location of the accident. In the afternoon they discovered that it was not the pipe that had broken, but that the leak had originated in a culvert, a kind of underpass for the drinking water pipe under a sewage pressure pipe. The culvert was then also welded.
Even if the repair is to be done quickly, the road will have to be prepared again. It is undermined on an area of around 150 square meters.