Monmouth Aldermen were informed of a new problem in the city's ongoing effort to squash water infrastructure issues. Woodard and Curran Public Works Director Andy Jackson this week informed the city council that the water tower on Harlem Avenue has sprung a leak in the last week. "We are probably going to have to get a contractor and take a look and develop a plan of action to make the repair. Most likely, it will involve draining the tower and cleaning the sediment out of there, and they'll have to weld wherever the patch needs to be. Right now, we're contacting the various contractors to see who can get in there." Jackson told the council that this was the first time he's seen a problem like this spring up and that a special contractor would have to be contacted to get a fix in. "It's just deteriorated probably. I'm going to guess a weld somewhere has failed or is failing. It's always underwater so I don't know that it is oxidizing. It's got to be a weld failure or bullet hole." He added that the tower was built in the mid-1960s.