CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - The City of Chicago has lifted the boil order that was in place for portions of the South Side.
The Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) made the announcement this morning.
The boil order was in effect for more than 24 hours for Beverly, Morgan Park and Auburn Gresham neighborhoods.
Homes and buildings, located east of Sacramento Avenue, north of 119th Street, west of I-57, south of 87th Street, and southwest of Beverly Avenue, were forced to boil their drinking and cooking water.
Tuesday evening, a leak on a high-pressure water main inside the Roseland Pumping station affected water pressure and prompted the boil order.
With the order now lifted, the Chicago Department of Water Management suggests residents do the following:
-Flush drinking fountains by continuously running for 5 minutes.
-Flush automatic icemakers. Make 3 batches of ice and discard all 3 batches.
-Drain and refill hot water tanks.
-If you have a water softener, run water through a regeneration cycle.
-If you have a point-of-use or inline water filters, sediment and/or Reverse Osmosis systems
perform the recommended filter change or back-wash in accordance with the manufacturer’s specifications.
-Drain reservoirs in large buildings that have water-holding reservoirs.
-Flush water coolers: run coolers with direct water connections for 5 minutes.
-Re-start and flush any water-using fixture in accordance with the manufacturer’s specifications.
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