Boil water alerts lifted for all Melbourne water customers

This includes residents on the nine streets in the North Waterway Estates Subdivision who were still being advised to boil until Monday afternoon.
A bacteriological survey conducted by city officials showed the water is now safe for consumption.
City leaders issued the boil water alert Thursday after a 6-inch valve broke on the 36-inch water main at the John A. Buckley Surface Water Treatment Plant near Lake Washington.
Melbourne supplies drinking water for Indialantic, Indian Harbour Beach, Melbourne, Melbourne Beach, Melbourne Village, Palm Shores, Satellite Beach, West Melbourne and unincorporated Brevard County customers south of the Pineda Causeway.
The boil water alert was lifted at 7 p.m. Sunday for all customers except those who live on nine streets in North Waterway Estates, a subdivision in South Patrick Shores just south of the Pineda Causeway.
In an earlier move, West Melbourne officials lifted their boil water alert for households and businesses on the city’s distribution system shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday.
The affected streets: Thrush Drive, Sparrow Drive, Eagle Drive, Finch Drive, Ibis Lane, Meadowlark Lane, Dove Lane, Blue Jay Lane and Skylark Boulevard.
Last month, Hurricane Irma crippled Cocoa’s water distribution system by damaging a water main along the Merritt Island relief bridge on State Road 520.
In September 2016, a lightning strike at the water treatment plant triggered Melbourne’s first system-wide boil water alert since hurricanes Frances and Jeanne struck in September 2004.

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