Residents of Olpe no longer need to boil their drinking or cooking water as of just after lunchtime Wednesday.
According to Olpe City Clerk Joyce Wilson, final test results for the city’s drinking water came back clear and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment rescinded a boil water advisory around 12:30 pm. The advisory had been in place for nearly a week and was issued around 10:30 am Friday.
As has been reported, the advisory was the result of a water main break that developed in the evening hours Thursday and was discovered nearly 15 hours later around 8:30 am Friday. By that time the leak had drained the entirety of Olpe’s water supply and left the city without water for much of the day.
Repairs were completed by Friday afternoon. Testing results were supposed to be back earlier this week, however, a shipping glitch delayed that process according to Wilson and Kansas Department of Health and Environment Compliance and Data Management Unit Chief Rob Gavin.
