AUSTINTOWN — The Austintown Senior Center remains open after a frozen pipe caused an internal leak. Officials say the extremely cold temperatures have caused some other small, but not insignificant, problems elsewhere in the township.

“They’re taking a toll,” said Township Administrator Mark D’Apolito. “Ice is going places ice isn’t supposed to be.”

In the case of the Senior Center, interior leaking infiltrated the area designated as the library.

“It’s a roof drain that froze and now it’s melting and we’re chasing it throughout the system,” D’Apolito said. “It’s basically an internal gutter, and once an ice jam formed in the pipe…it was leaking into the Senior Center Monday night.”

Senior Center Director Brittany Koch said none of the facility’s members have been affected and the center remains open for regular activities. D’Apolito said the damage is mostly contained.

“We were able to essentially cut the pipe in their library, which already had water damage, and we’re collecting water there while the plumber defrosts it, and then he’s going to replumb it,” he said. “We’ll have to wait for weather a bit but for now we have limited the damage to a few square feet of carpeting, and we’re keeping the dryers going. It’s just a product of the roof’s construction.”

He said freezing weather also caused a water main break on South Turner Road, with which his road crews – D’Apolito is also the township’s roads superintendent – have had to contend.

“It’s causing issues for the road department because, as the water from the broken line into the nearby residential developments, it turns into ice and then we have to send trucks out to salt it,” he said.

He said the township also received a report from a resident with a broken lateral water line, between the road main and their house.

The City of Youngstown issued a drinking water boil advisory for Youngstown, Boardman Township and Liberty Township on Sunday after a large-scale water main break on Hubbard Road between Logan Way and Albert Street.

On Tuesday, Youngstown crews worked on a main line break on Berkshire Avenue near Rush Boulevard.

Other nearby communities have fared somewhat better.

Boardman Township Trustee Steve Yacovone said that, other than the boil alert from Youngstown, the township is in fine shape and they have received no reports of major problems from residents or at the township’s facilities.

Roads in Austintown and Boardman remain open and mostly clear, for which D’Apolito and Boardman Road Superintendent Kim Blasco have received recognition and praise from township residents and trustees at recent meetings.

“Our guys work nonstop to maintain the roads, and they’ve done literally everything they could to keep all the 145 miles clear in Boardman,” Yacovone said.