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City of Leesburg briefly loses water after cable company cuts pipe

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LEESBURG, Ga. (WALB) — The city of Leesburg was briefly without water after a water line was cut on Thursday, April 17.

Leesburg City Manager Bob Alexander told WALB that a cable company cut a main waterline on 5th Street, which led to the city not having water.

The water outage impacted the entire city.

5th Street was closed off briefly, and people were asked to avoid the area as crews worked on repairing the pipe.

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