{"id":311441,"date":"2026-05-12T04:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311441\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:16:09","slug":"oakland-county-residents-speak-out-as-repairs-underway-following-water-main-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311441\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County residents speak out as repairs underway following water main break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews are working around the clock to restore clean water to multiple Metro Detroit communities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/oakland-county-water-main-emergency-schools-closed-water-conservation-requests\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">following a water main break<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Great Lakes Water Authority, emergency crews removed the busted pipe at 4 a.m. on Monday. As they prepare to install a new pipe, thousands of people are wondering when they will return to some normalcy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like it&#8217;s a pandemic all over again,&#8221; said a resident from Rochester Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Water is in demand in Oakland County. Store shelves are bare, leaving city officials rushing to fill the gap.<\/p>\n<p>Rochester Hills opened a water distribution site in the village parking lot. Parts of the city are under a boil water advisory, and officials are asking residents to ration water use in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>And while they had 900 gallons to give out, it wasn&#8217;t enough at first.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Four o&#8217;clock, it was supposed to start, and by the time I got here at like 4:25 (p.m.), they were out of water,&#8221; said a woman from Rochester Hills.<\/p>\n<p>While residents waited for their share, another distribution site was up and running in Auburn Hills, where people in neighboring communities are worried the water will run out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of scary. The beginning, they said it&#8217;s going to run out in a day or last night,&#8221; said one mother in Auburn Hills.<\/p>\n<p>As volunteers handed out over 3,000 gallons of water, residents wondered how long they would have to keep doing so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can send a man to the moon, but we can&#8217;t fix our water structure,&#8221; said one Oakland County man.<\/p>\n<p>GLWA is planning to have the replacement pipe installed by Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>And while the pipe is being tested and disinfected, residents will have to continue going the extra mile to complete simple but necessary tasks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews are working around the clock to restore clean water to multiple Metro Detroit communities following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,904,145,144,19577],"class_list":["post-311441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-water-main-break"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}