SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Ryan McMahon, the county executive for Onondaga County, along with some directors from the Onondaga County Water Authority (OCWA), are giving another update on the ongoing water main break affecting some towns in Central New York.
Earlier this week, the company ordered customers to limit the amount of water they use while workers fix the leak. The pipe takes water from Lake Ontario to a pump station in Clay, which in turn sends water to several towns east of Syracuse and south of Oneida Lake. OCWA engineers expect the work to continue into early January.
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The water is safe to drink. But, for the time being, the company is urging people in the affected area to take shorter showers, reuse water when possible, chill water in a fridge instead of running the faucet until it gets cold, and in general taking any measure to reduce the amount of water they use as much as necessary until workers fix the leak.
The area covers about 27,000 customers, McMahon told NewsChannel 9 (one customer can represent an entire household or business, for context). The map below from OCWA shows the areas the pipe leak affects:
Updated OCWA AffectedTownsVillages 12.20.25Download
McMahon has been giving daily updates on the work on the leak…