Water operations are back to normal for customers of Lyon County Rural Water District No. 1.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has lifted a boil water advisory announced Wednesday for most of the district’s coverage area after a 6-inch line failed near Roads 310 and F. Originally, the advisory covered several areas:
*North of Road 290 and west of Road F
*Road D at or north of Road 280
*City of Allen
*City of Bushong
RWD 1 Office Manager Julia Langley says the water pipe was on a block of rock, so crews had to jackhammer the rock away to make repairs. Langley credited District Operator Jonathan Seimears for repairing and clamping the line in relatively short order.
Once that situation was handled, Langley says district officials had to go into four homes — two above the break and two below it — for water samples to deliver to KDHE for testing. A board member personally delivered the water Thursday, with a 24-hour testing window needed before KDHE could made its decision. KDHE says there was no evidence of contamination in the samples.
