Preventive maintainance work on Alabama Street turned out to be more work and headaches for construction crews and residents.

J.A.R Concrete was hired by the city to repair some water lines and to do paving along Alabama Street when two water lines ruptured at Fred Wilson and Shepard Avenue.

Officials with El Paso Water Utilities say the city has an old infrastructure in place.

Residents were only supposed to be without water service from midnight until 4 a.m. Monday while the repair work was being done.

The water main breaks set that back and nearly 400 Northeast El Paso residents were stuck without water for most of the day.

J.A.R Concrete passed out 117 boxes containing gallons of water to residents of the Mountain Ridge Estates, one neighborhood heavily affected.

It wasn't until late Monday afternoon that the water service was finally restored.