Construction on William Street in Harrisburg on Monday.
Capital Region Water issued a boil water advisory today for 14 addresses in Midtown Harrisburg after construction on William Street caused a loss of positive water pressure.
The addresses span William, N. 4th and Calder streets in the immediate construction area.
According to Capital Region Water CEO Charlotte Katzenmoyer, CRW experienced a water main break by a contractor doing sewer work on William Street.
CRW has received dirty water complaints from nearby streets. However, Katzenmoyer told TheBurg the water outside of the boil water advisory addresses is safe.
“The larger area outside of those addresses that are listed in that boil water advisory did not lose positive pressure, so they did not have the potential to experience contamination in their pipes,” Katzenmoyer said. “But they can still experience dirty water.”
CRW told TheBurg that this advisory and discoloration is “unrelated” to discoloration other residents in Harrisburg have reported in the city as far back as last week.
Last Monday, CRW issued a statement stating that during a maintenance process, a disturbance in the distribution system caused naturally-occurring minerals, primarily iron and manganese, to enter the water supply and cause discoloration.
“During that maintenance activity, the system got stirred up and released some sediment from the inside of the pipe that got suspended in water,” Katzenmoyer said.
Katzenmoyer added that while CRW tried to clear last week’s discoloration by flushing fire hydrants, this appeared to have made the issue worse.
She clarified that, while discolored, the water has gone through the water treatment process.
The discoloration will continue “until the system stabilizes and pulls the dirty water out of all the pipes,” she said.
For more information, see Capital Region Water’s site.
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