Officials provide update on repairs to water main in Waterbury

WATERBURY, Conn. (WFSB) — Crews are continuing to fix a large water main break that’s been impacting Waterbury residents for nearly a week.

The Water Superintendent said water will be back up and running in at 7 p.m.

He said that should be the end of water disruptions.

Crews have been working tirelessly to fix this massive water main break since last Tuesday.

It’s caused several disruptions over the last several days but the water Superintendent Brad Malay said this should be the last of it.

Water was shut off at noon on Monday mainly impacting the east side of the city. Some residents have been without water while others are experiencing low water pressure.

Crews are repairing the water main enough to get water back up and running as usual but the valve itself wont actually be replaced for another week or so.

When that work is done residents shouldn’t see any impact.

The superintendent said part of the reason this water main break has caused such a large impact is because one of the city’s other transmission mains that supplies water has been down since June for repair.

“Under normal circumstances, if this had broke, we would still feed the other side of the city with our Thomas Avenue transmission main but because that’s down being repaired to avoid this kind of thing then we only had one transmission man in outside of the low service so it was kind of a combination of all things bad,” said Waterbury Water Superintendent Brad Malay.

Even though water will be restored at 7 p.m. the boil water advisory remains in effect.

Water samples will be tested for bacteria on Tuesday morning but until those results are in anyone who has lost water over the last week or experienced low pressure should still be boiling their tap water.

But if you haven’t been impacted at all throughout this break you dont need to.

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