SUN JOURNAL • August 30, 2024
After roughly 24 hours without safe drinking water, Lisbon residents hooked to the public water system can now drink the water. A pump malfunction resulted in sludge getting into the system at the Lisbon Water Department’s filtration plant, according to a statement issued by the Water Department on Friday night. Because the Water Department could not confirm that levels of contaminants such as arsenic were safe, the state required it to issue the do not drink order out of precaution. The Water Department handed out water to people all day Friday.