Horizon water utility: Service coming back to 8,000 customers

UPDATE: The Horizon Regional Municipal Utility Authority told ABC-7 that a break to a water main has been repaired and water should be returning to the 8,000 customers that were without it since Tuesday afternoon.

The spokesman for the utility said to ABC-7 in an email at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday that crews are repressuring the system and that residents will notice air in their faucets, which is normal. “It will take about 1.5 to two hours for the water to return to normal pressure and volume,” the email continued.

Many Horizon City residents were without water shortly after 5 p.m. on Tuesday when construction crews in the area broke a water main near Darrington Road and Horizon Boulevard.

Utility officials told ABC-7 that once the water is restored, residents will need to boil water until further notice.

ABC-7 heard concerns about whether the water outage would affect schools and reached out to the area’s school district officials. They say school will continue as scheduled.