Stopping the leaking water at Indianapolis City Market likely will be simple fix, city and market leaders said.

The historic Downtown venue housing prepared and fresh food vendors closed early Tuesday so that crews could check out a broken pipe that was causing water to seep up through the concrete floor. There was some concern that the leak could be indicative of a bigger problem with the building’s water piping system, which would involve extensive - and likely costly- work to fix. That cost likely would fall on the city, since the market is financially strapped and operates only with city subsidies.

But Jim Reilly, the market’s executive director, said the repairs should be somewhat painless. Crews on Tuesday found a pipe joint had burst. The fix will involve digging up concrete in an area of roughly three square feet to fix it. He didn’t yet have an estimate of what it would cost.

Reilly said the work likely will be done on Saturday, when there’s little activity at the market.

John Cochran, special counsel to Mayor Greg Ballard who sits on the market board, said the concern still remains that similar occurrences could happen in other spots of the building.

“This doesn’t give us a good idea of the condition of the pipes,” he said.