BALTIMORE - Water outage and low pressure in Howard County have been caused by a break at the Elkridge Pumping Stations, according to government officials.
Officials said the Howard County Department of Public Works Bureau of Utilities is working to repair a 36-inch drinking water main rupture in the Elkridge Pumping Stations.
County officials first started seeing the issue discussed on social media around 3:30 p.m.
The pumping station is intact, officials say.
The water outages and low pressure is affecting a large area, including Ellicott City, Elkridge and Snowden River Parkway.
However, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said DPW is shifting to an alternative water supply to restore service to the impacted areas.
Ball said there are two tanks impacted - Skaggsville and Snowden - and there are 100,000 residents in the pressure zone, but most of the residents are in the Elkridge and Long Reach areas.
The county executive said the Skaggsville tank is nearly full and the Snowden tank should be full by midnight.
Officials are unsure what caused the break, but Ball said it is unnecessary for residents to boil water.
"Since tanks were never completely empty, we didn't lose pressure, there's no need to boil water," Ball said. "Once the residents get water back into their homes, they can run the water and use it as they normally would."
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