LAWTON (WKZO-AM) — Residents of Lawton could finally see their boil water advisory lifted by the end of this week.
The advisory is now into week three.
“It appears to be pointed at one of the wells that kind of went sour,” Michael Grabbe, the superintendent of the public works department that oversees the southwest Michigan village, said on Tuesday.
Grabbe said back-to-back samples for total coliform were high.
“It’s an indicator bacteria that possibly something else could be going on,” Grabbe said.
Now, the state is requiring consecutive negative tests to lift the advisory.
“(The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality) instructed us to chlorinate the system for two weeks, flush it out and wait a week to let the chlorine to disappate before we can sample.” Grabbe said.
Grabbe says he’s not sure how the bacteria entered the system. He’s also not sure if the village will launch an investigation to locate the source of the contamination once the issue is resolved.
