DANVILLE – The Village of Danville has issued a water boil notification due to depressurization issues that occurred over the weekend.
Village administrator Rob McDonald received a phone call at 5:40 a.m. Monday from a resident who noted a lack of water pressure in their house. When McDonald went to investigate, he found there was a telemetry issue between the water tower the village’s well pumps.
Because temperatures pushed 90 degrees on Saturday and Sunday, McDonald believes village residents used more water than usual. When this happens, the village typically has three days’ worth of reserve water to use. But due to telemetry issues – which occur when the tower and pumps are not in-sync to replenish the supply – the well pumps didn’t know to come on when the tank was nearing empty. This caused a lack of water pressure for village residents on Monday morning.
McDonald said that something must have occurred on Friday or Saturday with the telemetry system that would have caused this misstep. The village is investigating that today, and officials will also talk with weekend water monitors about how things could have gone wrong.
“It’s an investigation process now, but the tank is filling,” McDonald said Monday morning.
While McDonald believes the water supply issue will be resolved soon, he said that “it’ll take a couple days” before the boil notification will be called off.
For now, McDonald recommends that residents boil their water before using it, for safety reasons. Boil advisories are typically issued to make certain all pathogens and biological contaminants are removed from water before it’s used.
“It’s just precautionary at this moment,” McDonald said. “We’re doing our due diligence to keep the community informed.”
