CHESTER — Water service to nearly 1,000 households in the Tuppers Plains-Chester Water District was restored Monday afternoon, after a broken water main and valve on Ohio 248 were repaired.

Customers in Chester, Bedford, Scipio and Salisbury townships are now under a boil advisory until further notice. Customers in those service areas are asked to boil water for three minutes before using it for drinking or cooking.

Customers in Bedford and Scipio townships were not without water during the service interruption, but they are included in the boil advisory territory.

Don Poole, General Manager of the Tuppers Plains-Chester Water District, said the outage affected customers in Chester Township west of Showalter Road. After a repair on the water main near Riebel Road on Ohio 248, the eight-inch valve failed to open back up after the leak was repaired so it needed to be replaced, Poole said.

There was an exception during the major outage, Poole said. The district made sure Rocksprings Rehabilitation Center had uninterrupted service by “isolating” the center’s service and using the Carper tank in Bedford Township to provide water.

There are just over 5,000 in the TP-C district, served by 22 water tanks.