Fix is on for Sappi waterline leak

The Lake Superior waterline to Cloquet "failed in spectacular fashion" earlier this month, but underwater pipe repairs are underway in the St. Louis River east of Duluth's Riverside neighborhood.

"We had a geyser in the river there the morning it came to light," said Cloquet public works director Caleb Peterson Wednesday afternoon. "It's been shut down for about a week and a half."

Peterson explained that the waterline pumps water from Lake Superior to Sappi. It is not used for potable drinking water and the leak that occurred was 100 percent raw lake water.

A dive team assessed the break Wedn...