10 articles · Updated · WDIV ClickOnDetroit · May 10
Lake Orion Community Schools closed through Tuesday, Avondale cancelled Monday district-wide, and Oakland Community College halted in-person classes at its Auburn Hills campus.
Rochester schools said classes would continue with bottled water at affected buildings, while Pontiac said it was assessing impacts and would issue an update Sunday evening.
Emergency declarations or boil-water advisories were issued in Auburn Hills, Orion Township and the Village of Orion after the 42-inch transmission line break, with water disruption possibly lasting up to two weeks.
With aging pipes failing across the US, is Michigan's two-week water outage a preview of America's infrastructure future?
A known leak became a two-week crisis. Why wasn't this massive water main failure prevented before it happened?