The Vermont Health Department’s Ali Boren performing a lead test on a water sample taken from a childcare center Credit: Kevin Mccallum

Updated 11:13 p.m.

The City of Burlington is advising residents to boil drinking water following a water main break and depressurization of the system.

The advisory is citywide, except for what the city calls its “high service area,” which includes the University of Vermont and the UVM Medical Center. It extends to South Burlington residents who are on Burlington’s municipal water supply. The city published a map of the affected area.

“We are currently working on the required sampling protocol to ensure all drinking water is safe to ingest,” says the advisory, issued Saturday. “At this time, the precautionary boil water advisory is likely to last through most of tomorrow.”

Some city businesses were affected. City Market, Onion River Co-op closed both of its Burlington stores.

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News editor Matthew Roy has been at Seven Days since 2014. Before that, he was an editor at The Virginian-Pilot.

7 replies on “Burlington Advises Residents to Boil Water as a Precaution”

  2. Third World problems in the Neo-liberal First World . . . I love “free market capitalism”.

    I’m sure one of those F-35’s can fly over and fix this problem, after all, that is the “Sound of Freedom” as its proponents like to say. It is also the sound of crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, ongoing devastation to the environment, and the debt peonage economic system we have.

    Drink up, folks!

  3. HT to “JIMMY” for his superbly wry post, to wit:

    “Boiling our water sucks, but take heart. We have those winter bike lanes that everyone uses!”

  4. People who keep sending the slow water problems to click fix it obviously don’t listen to the news. I’ve been replying to them and telling them the problem and what to do..

  5. I just love that a commenter found a way to blame a water main break on the capitalist system. I guess those socialist water pipes dont break! Who knew that the 70 year old underground infrastructure takes note of who is running the show above ground and decides whether its time to break! I guess Fidel, Hugo, and Kim never had a water main break! Good to know!

    Oh, by the way? The Burlington water system is owned by the city, just like your beloved BT was. Its not capitalist.

    Blaming a municipal pipe fracture on capitalism represents a new benchmark in silliness even for white people who spend their time obsessing about a meaningless, little-seen wall painting in a little used alley.

  6. This is why it is important to get an exemption from living in the city when accepting a position from Weinberger. It’s not hard. All you have to do is ask.

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