The troubled depot is presently the positioning of an ongoing sewage leak, the place a wastewater pipe is suspected to be leaking into the bottom across the depot.
However this week’s issues occurred on the constructing’s running-water aspect.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority work crews turned off water to the ability Saturday morning, the sources stated. Employees and the depot at the moment are utilizing moveable bathrooms, and an around-the-clock fireplace watch is in place till the sprinklers could be repressurized.
Laura Cala-Rauch, an MTA spokesperson, confirmed the water outage Tuesday, however didn’t give particulars on the restore work.
“We have crews on site daily who are working diligently to repair the issue as quickly as possible,” Cala-Rauch stated in a press release.
MTA buses are pictured on the Gun Hill Bus Depot within the Bronx in 2013. (Richard Harbus for New York Each day Information)
The water-main break marks the second time this 12 months that employees on the facility have needed to depend on chemical bathrooms. The MTA turned off the water at Gun Hill for almost 4 weeks this spring in order that crews may change pumps within the sewage system that had been offline for almost a 12 months.
The MTA is constant to research the obvious groundwater incursion into the sewage traces. The reason for final week’s ruptured water essential was not instantly clear.
The Gun Hill Bus Depot, which sits alongside Interstate 95 simply south of Co-op Metropolis, was in-built 1989, regardless of group objections, on the positioning of an previous dump.
Earlier than its use as a dump, the land beneath the depot was a marsh alongside the now-subterranean Givan Creek, which empties into close by Eastchester Bay.
Initially Revealed: June 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM EDT
