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Okay, OMU has lifted the boil water order for most Owensboro customers. About 300 customers and those who are still out in the county will have to wait a little bit longer for their boil order to be lifted.

Since early Monday morning, OMU crews have been working around the clock to repair the two broken water mains in Downtown Owensboro in front of Daviess County Middle School.

Owensboro-Daviess County suffered a water main break this morning in the downtown area and we have video footage of the break and flooding. We received this video from a WBKR listener this morning. A boil water advisory is now in effect for all OMU customers, including the southeast, west and east Daviess County water districts due to a water main break in front of OMU Plant A on East Fourth Stree

Owensboro Municipal Utilities has always maintained their own water quality testing laboratories.

Do you drink tap water? I haven't in over 10 years, and it wasn't specifically due to a threat to my health; filtered/bottled water just tastes better. About a month ago, I wrote about a study stating the highest levels of Chromium-6 in Kentucky's drinking water were in Daviess Co. In turns out, that Chromium-6 was just the beginning. According to the site FluksAqua, the entire state's drinking wa

Hexavalent chromium or chromium-6 first came to national attention when law clerk and now consumer advocate Erin Brockovich investigated the water from California-based company Pacific Gas & Electric. Now, a new study of the drinking water in 85 Kentucky counties finds the highest levels of chromium-6 right here in Daviess County.

I love Oprah Winfrey! She's a media mogul, a producer, an actress, a pillar of women's empowerment, yet, she's not a fan of drinking water. What do you know? Neither am I.