Hillsborough leaders share update on efforts to restore water and sewer services
Thank you everyone for coming out
I am Marie Strandwitz the utilities director
For your records that's M A R I E
S T R A N D W I T Z
and if you don't have my card I do have
some available
The current status of the water system is that our
water plant is not online right now but we are
on the verge of getting it back online
We had flooding of our finished water storage tank which
is an in-ground storage tank partially buried
And we have vents on the side of it so
the Eno River came up and got into those vents
and we visibly saw contamination of river water into our
finished drinking water
And so we immediately issued a boil water notice
Typically we would only issue an advisory but since we
visibly observed that flooding we went straight to a notice
even before we took bacteria tests
But I can say right now that we have gotten
the uh the tanks cleared out and sanitized refilled and
we are actually waiting on our final bacteria testing right
now
And once that is received and if it is absent
of bacteria we will be able to put our water
treatment plant back online
I would like to give a huge thank you to
the city of Durham because they are supplying the town
with our water right now through our distribution system
Because of all the utilities in this area we are
very focused on supply and resiliency