Boil water notice posted for Village of Massena users - WWNY

Boil water notice posted for Village of Massena users

MASSENA, New York (WWNY) - People who use water from the village of Massena are being advised to boil their water before consuming it.

The advisory is due to what officials are calling “a major water main break.”

The advisory is in effect until further notice.

Here’s a link village officials provided for information from the CDC on what steps people can take in the meantime.

Heather LaDuke was visiting her mother when she learned of Massena’s water problems through a neighbor’s phone call.

“As I was pouring the water from the sink talking to her, it got kind of iron-looking, like that rust color so I knew something was going on but I had to figure it was kind of close because to disturb our water quality, it had to be somewhere around here,” she said.

A water main ruptured on George Street. Crews found the problem, and quickly diverted water to other pipes. But because of water quality concerns, there is a boil water advisory in effect for users in the town and village of Massena.

“I felt it was best with some of the phone calls I was getting to do a boil water advisory for the whole village and town users of the village water system. What we’ll be doing - it’s probably going to be a 48-hour boil water until we have all the test results and they come back positive on Friday morning. Hopefully,” said Marty Miller, superintendent of the Massena Department of Public Works.

The Fourth Coast Café depends on water and made changes Wednesday to keep customers’ cups full.

“Bit of a challenge. We had to go out and buy bottled water. We can’t use any of our taps, so it’s costing us a little bit more to serve people because we have to serve bottled water. A little imposition, we can’t use our soda fountain because the water comes through that. So, a little bit of an imposition,” said Cheryl Savage, the café owner’s mother.

Miller says the actual leak of the water main is happening underneath the Grasse River and he needs a couple of divers to help fix the problem.

Divers could start the fix Thursday morning at 8 o’clock. Again the boil water advisory is in effect until further notice.

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