OCONTO COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — The clean-up continues after major flooding impacted several parts of Oconto County.
Oconto County Emergency Management says the highway department is working hard to repair the roads.
“There’s a lot of time and effort, a lot of resources, to make sure that as we’re putting this stuff together it stays together,” Oconto County Emergency Management Director Jon Spice said.
Emergency Management says some of the fixes they’ve made are temporary.
“We’ll have to go back and have some permanent fixes at a later date. We’ve been working with some of our suppliers, they’ve been more than generous with working with us, trying to get us culvert pipes and materials that we need so we are making very good progress,” Spice said.
Their focus is to repair roads to make sure emergency vehicles can respond as quickly as possible.
The Oconto County Health Department is giving out free well water test kits to residents who may have been impacted by the flooding.
“Our concern right now is that they’re using safe water. With the flooding, the wells can be contaminated, so we’re wanting people to use bottled water, water that they’ve boiled for a minute, or otherwise if they can get water from someone that doesn’t have a contaminated well,” Oconto County Health Officer Debra Konitzer said.
Konitzer says she hasn’t seen any reports of contaminated well water yet.
She says there are a substantial number of residents who have private wells.
“And for those that are in the flood area, I believe all of them would have wells, that there’s no municipal water there,” Konitzer said.
The health department is giving out the well water test kits until 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Town of Spruce Town Hall.
They’ll hand them out again on Wednesday morning from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Oconto County Courthouse.
