DOVER, Del. - The City of Dover says that some areas near the Firefly Music Festival may experience brown water Thursday night and Friday morning.
According to the city, brown water sometimes occurs because of aging infrastructure, but this specific instance was caused due to an issue near Persimmon requiring the city to flush the water lines.
Megan Haase, festival goer said, "I just hope that they get a few more sources accessible outside of the grounds for everybody who's elsewhere. It seems like, down in the South camp at least, there's not a whole lot that's accessible so that would be nice." after the shut down of city water left the South Campsite without water and forced them to go to the North campsite prior to the festival opening.
The City says that despite the water's color, the water has always met state and federal requirements. They say that if you are experiencing brown water, run your faucet cold until it turns clear.
"We are aware of the public water system issue in Dover DE and want to reassure our festival goers that Firefly's water us safe," said Firefly, in a statement released Thursday night. "The vast majority of Firefly's water is supplied by clean wells. Refill stations and showers in North Camping and the refill stations in Main Stage Field are supplied by those wells and remain open. We have shut off any City of Dover water service into the festival."
Nicholas Ingarra said he was never hesitant to use the water, "I will continue to use the water, mostly for showering, probably going to stay away from drinking it, at least try to stick to bottle water. When I go on vacation, there's so many people here, I stick to what's safe."
Firefly is running from September 22nd to the 25th.