Luxury condo in downtown Fort Lauderdale finally shakes boil-water order after 23 days

FORT LAUDERDALE — Condos at the WaterGarden, with its swank 347 New River Drive address and stunning skyline views, sell for around $1 million. But...

October 7, 2023
6:18 AM

FORT LAUDERDALE — Condos at the WaterGarden, with its swank 347 New River Drive address and stunning skyline views, sell for around $1 million. But for 23 days, the hundreds of well-to-do people who live there were warned not to drink their own tap water because it wasn't safe. A cast-iron pipe that serves their building and theirs alone broke on Sept. 7, forcing the city to issue a boil-water order that was not lifted until Friday — one of Fort Lauderdale's longest boil-water orders on record.

Susannah Bryan