City of Logan Water Board employees work on a broken water line Monday underneath Water Street near the old Subway restaurant building. Water had been shut off to much of the city and its water customers throughout the weekend and for a brief period yesterday after a line break happened late last week. Schools and businesses who used city water were closed Monday. Water service was restored Monday, but the city and several of its surrounding communities will remain on a boil water advisory until at least Wednesday afternoon. Photo/Michael Browning
Following three days of work, the water line break in Logan has been fixed and an official with the Logan Water Board believes the boil water advisory for the city and its surrounding areas will be lifted by Wednesday afternoon.
Nearly 1,000 water customers were without service this weekend due to the line problems.
Water Board Chemist Everett Brumfield said Tuesday morning that the line break on Water Street near the old Subway restaurant building was permanently repaired Monday afternoon.
“Everything is pretty good, except at 16 Hill at Mud Fork, where we have a few people still without water,” Brumfield said. “But, we’ve got our tanks getting fuller and the lines are pressurized real good and everything should be back to normal, we’re hoping.”
Brumfield said the boil water advisories for several areas will remain in effect through Wednesday afternoon.
“We’ve taken water samples to be tested and we hope to get the boil water advisories lifted by noon tomorrow if the tests come back good.”
Crews searched on Friday for the broken line and finally located it near the railroad crossing on Water Street near the old Subway restaurant building, Brumfield said.
“We had a 12-inch main line burst. The bottom of it blew out,” Brumfield said. “It took us a while to find it because it was going down instead of going up. We cut valves off yesterday and pressurized it and it blowed out in a meter box down there at the railroad crossing where the old Subway used to be.
“It was all going down and going down the outflows and into the river and that’s why it was taking us so long to find it.”
Brumfield said customers in lower elevations had water service, while those in the higher elevations had to be cut off for a while.
Areas remaining on the boil water advisory are: From Business Park Drive in Main Holden; Trace and Upper Trace; Frog Town; Bee Bee; Bungalow; Diamond Camp; 1st, 2nd and 3rd Davis, Sulphur Springs; Curry Hollow up to Sulphur Springs; Stollings; McConnell; from 3 Mile Curve to Madison Creek; all of Route 17 from Melville to Blair Mountain and Upper Mud Fork.
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