FRANKENMUTH (WJRT) – (09/04/18) – A four day boil water advisory impacting the north end of Frankenmuth has been lifted.
It was put in place Friday around noon after an issue popped up after switching from an old transmission main to a new one.
City Manager Bridget Smith said as crews made the switch there was also a water main break.
"We didn’t think it was contaminated, and we found out today there was no bacteria in the samples, but, you know you just don’t feel right telling people to drink dirty water," Smith said.
Smith said the city will investigate whether the sediment in the new transmission main was the result of the construction process.
It delivers water from the city of Saginaw to the city of Frankenmuth.
Frankentmuh officially lifted the boil water advisory Tuesday after the second round of testing came back clean, and city leaders checked with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
Smith said they did not plan to make the switch right before Labor Day.
"Our first chlorine samples took an extra week to clear, so ideally we would have made this connection almost two weeks ago.
And then we had three or four days of heavy rain, which also put us off."