Heather Cherone | May 25, 2021 11:08 am
Some Chicagoans were under a boil order for 20 hours ending Friday, May 7. (Holger Schue / Pixabay)
Residents of Beverly, Morgan Park and Mount Greenwood do not have to boil their water after an outage Tuesday morning cut power to the Roseland Pumping Station twice within an hour, officials said.
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The Roseland Pumping Station experienced “two power issues that affected the pumping pressure for drinking water” between 9:15 a.m. and 10:10 a.m., according to the Department of Water Management.
A boil order was not necessary on Tuesday “because of the temporary nature of the issue,” according to Chicago water officials.
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For the second time this month, a water pumping station that serves the Southwest Side lost power Tuesday, affecting the pressure of drinking water in Beverly and Morgan Park.
But unlike the earlier outage at the Roseland Pumping Station, no boil order was issued though city officials said they will sample the water “out of an abundance of caution.”
The Chicago Department of Water Management said “two power issues” affected water pressure between 9:15 a.m. and 10:10 a.m. Tuesday. ”A boil order is not being issued because of the temporary nature of the issue,” the agency said.
It added that the cause was under investigation.