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A water main break closed Riverside Street in Portland for several hours Friday while it was being fixed, a spokeswoman for the Portland Water District said.

The break near the Riverside Golf Course closed Riverside Street just after noon.

Michelle Clements, spokeswoman for the water district, said Friday afternoon that she didn’t know how many customers were affected. She said the road was closed because of concerns about flooding and icing.

It was 15 degrees in Portland at the time of the break.

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Eric Russell has been a general assignment reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram since 2012 and has been a journalist in Maine since 2004. Because he doesn’t have a specific geographic...

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