After two Mondays of canceled classes at Hillyard Technical Center due to a water line break, the St. Joseph Board of Education gave emergency approval to a fix.

A section of pipe was fixed when there was a water line break earlier this month. School District Superintendent Dr. Robert Newhart said the Board made an emergency decision at Monday night’s meeting to replace the entire line leading up to the building.

“Once we fixed it (the first time), it was creating such pressure… popping more holes in the older pipe which was basically 37-years-of-age and it was the old iron-type pipe,” Newhart said. “In order to have school, we had to contract with the company to work all night and they actually had it finished (Tuesday) morning by about 4:30 and we were able to announce that Hillyard Technical Center is open for business.”

Newhart said the 500 feet of new pipe cost approximately $22,000 and was something that was scheduled to be fixed anyway this summer.