DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – There is still no word on what exactly caused the water main break that forced thousands of residents into a boil advisory last week, and Dayton water crews say the Great Miami River is still too high to examine the break.
“As much as the weather cooperates, we’re going to be out there as soon as possible to try to assess the damage and make a plan to repair it,” he says.
“We work together, which you can only expect from a great partner,” he said.
“He had a flat tire, drove on his rim to get here.
Couldn’t make it all the way into the plant so he actually hopped the fence, broke his wrist, continued to come into the Emergency Operation Center, and stayed until the end,” Powell said.
In the thick of the boil advisory, there was some confusion about whether the city or county boil map was correct, so Powell says they created an app on-the-fly that will be tweaked for future use.
“We called in one of our GIS engineers to work on that, in addition to the map.
If there was ever a request that we needed something, it was instantly granted to just make it happen.
I couldn’t have asked for anything better,” he said.
Additionally, officials said that they have only received four calls for rusty water thus far, and no illnesses connected to the break have been reported.