UPDATE

Health Unit lifts water advisory for the York Street area.

Residents are asked to run cold water for five minutes or until the water clears.

 

The local health unit has issued a drinking water advisory effective immediately for residents in the York Street area because of a pipeline failure.

That includes residents in the Lancaster Drive, Windsor Crescent, Tudor Court, Gloucester Court and York Street between Hillsdale Crescent and Gloucester Court.

Residents in those areas should not use the municipal system for anything and there are water filling stations across the city, the closest would be on Countryside Drive.

The city is working to re-establish the water supply and will notify residents when its safe to drink use the water again.