Marthasville Mayor David Lange is reassuring residents that there is no issue with water at Marthasville Elementary School, following a complaint filed with the city last week.The complaint was filed by a local resident Wednesday, Aug. 16, after discolored water was reportedly seen at the school. The complaint claimed that the water had potentially been contaminated because of work done by an unlicensed operator.While the city had been doing work on the school’s water system the day before classes began, Lange said discussions with Washington School District officials indicated that an in-building system had caused the discolored water.The city ordered a water sample to be taken from the school and sent to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to support the comfort of the citizens, Lange said at a public meeting Aug. 16. Results on that test had not yet been returned.The mechanical water meter at the school was being swapped out for an electronic meter, Lange said, part of an effort to update the city’s water system.“This is the first time I know of — there may have been in the past — that we have had any complaint about there being any bad water from changing out any of our water meters,” Lange said.The school was notified twice ahead of the work on the water system, Lange said. He added that the contractor doing the meter change outs does not have to be a licensed water operator.Assistant Superintendent Dr. Brendan Mahon said city staff had notified the school of the meter work being done Monday, and that the water was OK to drink when school started on Tuesday.In response to the complaint, Mahon said the district ordered its own, independent water samples to be tested through DNR. He said those tests did not show any dangerous contamination.“The bottom line is, DNR told us we’re good to go, so we will continue as-is until we hear differently from them,” Mahon said.Water