Boil Water Advisory Lifted For Statesville Residents

STATESVILLE, NC– Residents in Statesville no longer need to boil water.  The city says the system has been checked and there is no indication of e. coli.

A water line broke Tuesday night and left thousands without water. The water system is operating and the line is repaired.

Jerry Bylery, who’s worked in water resources for 28 years, says he’s never seen an city lose water because of a water line break.

“The leak was of such a magnitude that all our tanks were dry and that’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 to 7 million gallons of water we lost in a very short period,” said Bylery.