The Great Lakes Water Authority said it's isolated a broken water main in Novi and now has a better idea of when that pipe will be repaired.

Crews restored water pressure for customers, early Friday morning.

The pipe ruptured early Thursday morning on 14 Mile Road near M-5 and caused several schools to shut down since they didn't have running water.

Novi and Walled Lake remain under a boil water advisory.

The timeline right now that we are looking at is approximately 10 to 15 days to be able to make the repair," GLWA director of transmission Pete Fromm told 7 News Detroit.

At the outset of the water main break, his crew faced two separate tasks. One includes reaching and repairing the broken 42-inch pipe. That's ongoing.

The other task was restoring water pressure to customers by con

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