Crews cannot say how long road repairs will take after Bethesda water main break. #WTOP pic.twitter.com/ESdDFggRvU
— Nick Iannelli (@NickWTOP) October 14, 2015
![In this file photo, water and debris cover the street at Rockville Pike and Cedar Lane after a water main burst in October. Repairs to the road will begin Tuesday, Dec. 1. (WTOP/Nick Iannelli)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ROCKVILLE-PIKE-BREAK.png)
Zeroing in on 74 yr old broken pipe on the Pike near Cedar Ln. Details tba on water station for area customers. pic.twitter.com/ewSTYauKBk
— WSSC Water News (@WSSCWaterNews) October 14, 2015
![A water main break is causing some lane closures on Rockville Pike Tuesday afternoon. (Courtesy NBC Washington)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/watermain.jpg)
![A water main break on Rockville Pike has snarled traffic Tuesday afternoon. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/watermain3.jpg)
WSSC crews have not yet stopped the water flow from 15 inch water main break #wtop pic.twitter.com/wZkjSYH6zL
— Dick Uliano (@DickUliano) October 13, 2015
![WSSC crews are responding to the water main break Tuesday. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/watermainbreak.jpg)
![In this file photo, water and debris cover the street at Rockville Pike and Cedar Lane after a water main burst in October. Repairs to the road will begin Tuesday, Dec. 1. (WTOP/Nick Iannelli)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ROCKVILLE-PIKE-BREAK-260x174.png)
![A water main break is causing some lane closures on Rockville Pike Tuesday afternoon. (Courtesy NBC Washington)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/watermain-260x174.jpg)
![A water main break on Rockville Pike has snarled traffic Tuesday afternoon. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/watermain3-260x174.jpg)
![WSSC crews are responding to the water main break Tuesday. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/watermainbreak-260x174.jpg)
WASHINGTON —Rockville Pike reopened shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday after a water main break that closed lanes for more than a day.
Crews had been working to repair the break in a 74-year-old main on Rockville Pike near Cedar Lane that happened Tuesday afternoon.
For most of Wednesday. one southbound lane and two northbound lanes got by on Rockville Pike between Jones Bridge Road and Pooks Hill Road.
Early Thursday, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission said that more road had to be cut out than initially expected after the 16-inch main broke on Tuesday afternoon.
WSSC tweeted that a water station was set up for customers late Tuesday night at the Boy Scouts of America center located at Cedar Lane and Rockville Pike.
355 & Cedar Lane, water main break. #WTOP pic.twitter.com/uFtWkm0Myy — Stacy Kravitz (@Miss_S) October 13, 2015