Well, the river of city water that has been gushing up from a hole in the street in front of Jen Ogle’s northeast Baltimore house – for five weeks straight – has finally been stopped.

The fix came four days after The Brew sent a series of questions to the Baltimore Department of Public Works (DPW) and published a story about Ogle’s fruitless efforts to get them to help:

Ogle made seven calls to the city’s 311 call center.

She was worried about the hazardous sheet of ice that formed in the 3000 block of Evergreen Avenue during the recent cold snap and the possibility of a sinkhole if the water kept streaming through the roadway.

But although work crews came out three times, tearing up the street and leaving ugly patches, none of them were able to locate and stop the 24/7 flow – until today.

Ogle told The Brew that workers showed up and replaced a roughly 15-foot section of pipe, patched the spot and now there’s no river on Evergreen Avenue.

“Fourth time’s the charm, I guess,” she said, in an email. “The patch is huge and unsightly, but so far seems dry!”

We’re still waiting for DPW to get back to us with answers to our questions about the whole debacle, including “Why wasn’t it fixed before?” and “How much water does the city lose annually to these breaks, leaks and sinkholes?”

According to the most recent data, from 2015, the city was “losing” more than a third of its treated water to these cracks and ruptures.

We’ll publish their response when it comes in.

Below is video showing how the street leak looked last week: