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Jonelle Sigmon, public information officer for the city of Morganton, said repairs had been made to the city’s pump station after it was flooded during Hurricane Helene’s torrential downpour.

Monday morning, Sigmon said the city was waiting on testing for bacteria in the water to be completed before it could call off the city’s boil water advisory.

The testing takes at least 24 hours, so it will be at least Tuesday before the boil water advisory in Â鶹´«Ã½ is canceled, she said.

If there is too much bacteria in the water, the test will be redone until the results are good.

Some areas with water supplied by Â鶹´«Ã½ were out of water Monday. Pumps at the Oakhill water tank, Lake James water tank and Grandview water tank did not have power, the city said in a Facebook post Monday. The tanks were without water. The city was working to get power to the pumps with generators. Water was expected to be restored by the end of the day on Monday, the city said.

The town of Drexel's water pumps were not operational as of Monday afternoon, the town said in a Facebook post. The town is working to have power to the pumps within a day, the post said.

For city of Â鶹´«Ã½ electric customers, crews from cities around North Carolina have come to the area to get power restored.

By 4:30 p.m. Sunday, there were 4,500 people in the city without power, according to a press release from the city.

The city asked anyone who is using a generator to turn the main breaker off in the home to make sure no linemen are electrocuted while working on power lines.