The city of Chester has repaired a major water line break. It was a challenging process as crews had to get heavy machinery hundreds of feet up a hill.

City leaders first were made aware of the break around noon on Tuesday. Once officials located exactly where the break was, the challenge became how to get to it. The line is located up on a hill near the million-gallon water tank at the top. The break was just outside the water filtration plant.

"The one that goes clear to the tank has to be elevated so that it feeds down,” Chester Mayor Ed Wedgewood explained. “So, the break itself was about 150 feet up and it’s been heavy precipitation over the winter, and it was muddy."

The crew tasked with making the repairs made progress Wednesday morning as it took them about 6 hours to get an excavator 200 feet up the hill, zig zagging a path up. Then, once there, the line was dug up and repairs were made, but not before most of the water was gone.

We're still facing an uphill battle with refilling our tank and refilling our lines making sure that regular service gets brought up and, not only just brought up to speed, but chlorinated and sanitized,” Wedgewood said.

Cases of water were brought to the city building downtown -- local football players helped unload the water and residents lined up outside. Wedgewood thanked the community for their patience as crews worked to get everything repaired. He’s still asking that residents wait to use water for anything other than essentials as the task now is to refill the water tank.

"There will be water going into lines, however that water, for the time being is just for toilets and for water boilers for heat,” he said.