Hasty under boil water advisory

LAURINBURG – Residents in the Hasty community are under a boil water advisory, after a water main bust early Tuesday. Shortly after midnight, residents lost water completely from McQueen to Crestline Roads. The incident was one of two that occurred Monday, officials said. On Monday afternoon, residents in the Woodbridge Drive area began reporting issues with water pressure around 4 p.m., according to Stacey McQuage, director of Laurinburg Public Utilities. The incidents are unrelated, according to McQuage. “It’s pretty routine to have these occasions; you just don’t usually have two in the same night,” McQuage said. Around 60 residents were without water until 6 a.m. Tuesday The outage was caused by a break in an eight-inch waterline near the corner of McQueen Road and US 501 South. Finding the problem took quite…

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