Rochester schools shut down Wednesday and residents were warned to boil their water after a body was found in the city’s reservoir.
Workers with the city’s Bureau of Water discovered the adult man around 8 a.m. Tuesday during their morning checks of the Highland Park Reservoir, officials said.
The reservoir was immediately disconnected from the public water supply and a plan was launched to drain the 26 million-gallon body of water.
“This is a very very sad situation. But it compounds in that being that this happened near our water supply. It’s important that we exercise this abundance of caution in terms of this boil water advisory,” Mayor Malik Evans said.
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The body was recovered by a police SCUBA team and has been turned over to the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office for identification.