TAMPA —Officials announced Friday night that work on the intersection of Gandy and Himes in Tampa to repair a water main break should be completed by midday Saturday.

The break was one that significantly affected traffic and left South Tampa residents upset.

Officials say the break was caused by a third party doing work for someone other than the city of Tampa, and now the city is working to clean the debris and restore the road.

The scene has has neighbors like Karla Roebuck concerned.

“It’s really inconvenient, it’s a nuisance really,” she said.

Roebuck has lived at her home in South Tampa for three years.

She’s visually impaired and moved to this area so she can walk to get groceries and pick up her prescriptions.

“It’s a real big nuisance, because I walk with a cane," she said. "I don’t want a sight seeing cane, but this one steadies me so I don’t fall. But it’s really hard to navigate over the hills and the stumps and the gravel that they pull up. It’s real hard."

Roebuck said the construction has caused increased traffic on her street as people seek alternate routes, posing a danger to kids and animals.

This is not the first time something like this has happened, city officials said.

According to information from the city, at least eight water main breaks are reported each day, although most are not this big.

Roebuck said she notices it about twice a month.

“Usually they don’t alert me, I just find out when I’m going to Target or something," she said. "I see it flowing down the road and my son walks in the water, and he pushes me.

"I don’t want nothing in my way, and if there’s something in that water and he hits a rock or something, I’m likely to fall out the wheelchair."

So for now, she says she’s frustrated because this doesn’t just cause an inconvenience, but a loss of independence.

“It’s not safe here, to be honest with you," Roebuck said. "I am sorry to say it. I love Tampa and I love South Tampa, but some crossing the roads and the water breaks, it’s not safe, it really isn’t."