`So cool' pipe break is perfect cure on hot day.

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Want summer fun on a scorching scorch
v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es

v.tr.
1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn¹.

2. Monday afternoon?

Just add water.

One million gallons, give or take - that's how much burst forth at 2:30 p.m. when a water pipe broke under 15th Avenue in southeast Eugene. The water quickly surfaced and was up to 3 feet deep, flowing north along Orchard Street The name Orchard Street can refer to the following roads:

Orchard Street (Manhattan), New York City
Orchard Street (London)
Orchard Road, Singapore

.

Given Monday's 96 degree heat, it was the perfect recipe for getting a little crazy: Best friends Emilia Gardner and Page Biersdorff, both 14 and from Eugene, said they saw college kids floating down Orchard Street in an innertube, and even a kayaker.

"Eugene is so boring, but now it's so cool because I've never seen anything like this," Gardner said as she soaked her feet in a deep pool that crossed both lanes of Orchard Street, east of the University of Oregon campus The University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon has around 80 buildings and facilities, including athletics sites such as Hayward Field, which is the site for the 2008 Olympic Track and Field Trials, and McArthur Court, and off-campus sites such as nearby Autzen Stadium and the .

Heat had little to do with the rupture rupture, in medicine: see hernia. , at least directly, said Mel Damewood of the Eugene Water & Electric Board. Although water usage was up Monday due to the heat, it wasn't enough to stress the 16-inch pipe, he added.

The pipe probably broke due to a shift in the soil, which contracts and expands during periods of hot, dry weather, Damewood said.

The utility blocked off 15th Avenue between Orchard and Walnut streets A number of streets are named Walnut Street:

Walnut Street (Harrisburg)
Walnut Street (Philadelphia)

Walnut Street may also refer to:

Walnut Street Bridge
Walnut Street (NJT station), in Montclair, New Jersey

while it worked on the pipe, and water service was to be restored to the five houses and a business impacted by the break by 4 a.m. today.

Speaking of today, look for temperatures in the low to mid-90s.

CAPTION(S):

Page Biersdorff (left) and Emilia Gardner, both 14, take a cooling stroll across flooded Orchard Street after a water main broke Monday.

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Date:	Aug 10, 2004
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