Rycroft residents nearing one week without water

Residents of the Village of Rycroft are growing frustrated, now that they have been without water for nearly a full week.

The village remains under a local state of emergency, as well as a boil water advisory as the water supply has been shut down while crews dig to locate the break on 51 street near the village office.

“We are all frustrated because we all live there,” says Mayor Diahann Potrebenko. “Mostly everybody has been really understanding. We have been providing water to our residents (potable and non-potable), so we’ve had a lot of support and people do understand, especially with the cold weather, that gave us another task to deal with. People are being patient, but I don’t think that patience is going to last much longer.”

On Monday, crews were able to dig through seven feet of frost, with more digging happening today. The village is hoping the break will be fixed before end of day today, but Potrebenko notes that the water will not be potable right away.