MANCHESTER, Tenn. (WTVF) — UPDATE: Manchester Mayor Joey Hobbs posted just before 7:30 p.m. Monday that the Duck River Utility Company had repaired the lines and was repressurizing for restored service.
PREVIOUS: The water service for Manchester and Tullahoma, supplied by Duck River Utility Company, has been affected on Monday afternoon for an undetermined amount of time, with a hopeful restoration by the end of the day.
According to Joey Hobbs, the Mayor of Manchester, the Duck River Utility Company encountered "unanticipated difficulty" while repairing a leak, which resulted in a reliance on city water tank reserves for the time being.
Hobbs says that the utility company is hopeful that the issue will be resolved "within a couple of hours." He asks that residents only use water as necessary to avoid running the city water tanks dry and says that he will provide an update when the water service has been restored.
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