Mount Pleasant Road reopens after emergency repair

Posted October 10, 2012 6:46 am.

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TORONTO, Ont. – A stretch of Mount Pleasant Road has reopened after an emergency repair shut down the road for several hours between Inglewood and Roxborough drives on Wednesday.

The roadway reopened at 6:30 a.m. after hydro workers and fire crews stabilized a water leak in a tunnel.

Toronto Hydro was working to lower equipment into a tunnel to pump out contaminated ground water when a leak developed due to a broken seal.

Hydro and fire crews were working to pump water into the tunnel to stabilize the leak and prevent a sinkhole from forming.

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