#boil-water-notice

#boil-water-notice

The city hired West Valley Construction Co. to isolate and seal the pipe at both ends, and inject a high concentration of chlorine to decontaminate the pipe for 24 hours starting Monday morning. The chlorine is then flushed out and tested for bacteria twice, 12 hours apart.

More than 100,000 residents in the Texas border city of El Paso were left with little to no water after a main break over the weekend, and it was expected to take till midweek for operations to return to normal, officials said. The break in the 36-inch water main line happened late Saturday night in El Paso, which has a population of about 700,000, officials said.

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