5 addresses still without water service in McKeesports’s Lower 10th Ward

By JEFF STITT
jstitt@yourmvi.com

There are now only five addresses in McKeesport still impacted by a do not drink notice from Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County.
It has now been 20 days since those MAWC customers in the city’s Lower 10th Ward have been able to drink their water, or use it for things like brushing their teeth, making ice, cooking, washing dishes or watering vegetables.
MAWC spokesman Matthew Junker said that following receipt of another round of test results from the Lower 10th Ward, and after consultation with state regulators, MAWC on Thursday reduced the number of customers on the notice to five.
There were 13 other customers that had been under the notice until they can use water as normal.
The number of customers impacted has been shrinking since the early morning hours after a July 16 fire at McKeesport Auto Body on Rebecca Street.
During that devastating fire, which raged on for hours and brought multiple mutual aid companies to McKeesport, firefighters used “an older class B fire fighting foam to suppress the blaze,” MAWC said.

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