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Chattanooga mostly recovered from water break; neighbors pitch in to help those without

Staff photo by Sarah Grace Taylor / Cassandra Weakly, 66, and her son John Davis, 49, volunteer with the Chattanooga Police Department during a city-wide water outage on Sunday, September 16, 2019. Weakly and Davis drove from Knoxville to "share a blessing" with struggling Chattanoogans.
Staff photo by Sarah Grace Taylor / Cassandra Weakly, 66, and her son John Davis, 49, volunteer with the Chattanooga Police Department during a city-wide water outage on Sunday, September 16, 2019. Weakly and Davis drove from Knoxville to "share a blessing" with struggling Chattanoogans. Staff photo by Sarah Grace Taylor / Cassandra Weakly, 66, and her son John Davis, 49, volunteer with the Chattanooga Police Department during a city-wide water outage on Sunday, September 16, 2019. Weakly and Davis drove from Knoxville to "share a blessing" with struggling Chattanoogans.

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Chattanooga will largely return to normal Monday after a long weekend without water.

All of the 35,000 Tennessee American Water Co. customers affected by a Thursday night water main break have fully restored service after being down for anywhere between 36-70 hours, but some areas were still under a boil water advisory Sunday night as lab results loomed under an “abundance of caution.” The company has consistently said it stayed within state and federal guidelines during the event.

The remaining areas were expected to be released of boil advisories Monday.

At a Sunday afternoon news conference, the company shared a new map of recovery from the event that left thousands of residents in its coverage area with little or no water.