Precautionary Boil Water Notice Information in St. Johns County, City of St. Augustine.
St. Johns County, Fl – A limited number of precautionary boil water notices have been issued in St. Johns County, affecting less than 1,500 customers.
A water main break in the City of St. Augustine will affect an as-yet-undetermined number of city utility customers in the coming days.
• St. Johns County Utility Department has issued precautionary boil water notices for 101–132 Old Ponte Vedra Drive in Ponte Vedra Beach, and 1900–1945 Abercrombie Lane in the Walden Chase neighborhood.
These advisories affect less than 50 customers.
An updated map of boil water notices for Utility Department customers is available at www.co.st-johns.fl.us/Calendars+/utility.aspx.
• JEA has active boil water advisories in the following areas of South Ponte Vedra Beach and Vilano Beach.
Visit www.jea.com/Outage_Center/Water_Notices/ for the latest advisories from the JEA coverage area.
For status updates, visit the city’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CityStAug.
Residents who receive a notice should boil (for one minute) all water used for drinking, cooking, making ice, brushing teeth or washing dishes.

Sutherland water: All clear.
Sutherland residents nt longer have to boil their water to eliminate the possibility of contamination, village maintenance superintendent Jason Lashley said Wednesday afternoon.
Lashley said the village were told the water was clean at 4:30 p.m. after two days of testing.
Lightning trippedan electrical breaker early Saturday morning, shutting down the village’s water pumps.
The water tower continued to supply homes and businesses for several hours.
No one realized the problem until early Sunday morning.
When offiicals learned of the problem, notices of a boil water advisory were posted and the news media was informed.
Whenever a water system is shut off and then restarted, harmful bacteria can possibly be dislodged from the system’s pipes and endlines, potentially allowing bacteria could mix into tap water.
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UPDATE: Sutherland water now safe to drink.
Sutherland city officials said the Boil Water Advisory has been lifted for Sutherland residents as of Wednesday afternoon.
The Village of Sutherland received test results from the first set of water samples they sent Monday for testing.
The results came back negative for bacteria.
We will keep you updated on this when the next set of samples come in Wednesday, September 13.
_______________________________________________________ UPDATE: Water specialists from the Department of Health and Human Services are on the ground in Sutherland, testing the water supply.
Water pressure is now back up in the town, but officials want to be safe before the public drinks the water.
"Right now we just sent off samples, five from each zone.
In order for the water to be considered safe to drink, both samples from Monday and Tuesday have to come back negative for bacteria, otherwise the town could be looking at a longer wait time.
ORIGINAL: The village of Sutherland released a notice to the pubic on Sunday stating they are under a boil water advisory due to a complete loss in water pressure.

Water trickles and thousands enjoy a collective sigh of clean relief.
The past few days have been hot, grimy, showerless and flush-free, after Hurricane Irma knocked out water service early Monday for Cocoa’s 82,000 customers, including those on Cocoa Beach.
Like thousands of Brevardians, the Hutchersons went days without water, and still lacked power.
Their water had just come back on, but remained under a boil advisory.
When pipes break in the lagoon, the city uses a diver to fix them.
Exactly how Hurricane Irma broke the lines underneath the lagoon remains unclear.
"Right now, we are isolating around the break to get water to customers in that area.
"About an hour ago, it just started trickling in our house, enough to fill the toilets, so we can actually flush for the first time in several days," said a relieved Chris McCall, a Cocoa Beach resident.
The city of Cocoa in coordination through the state of Florida has arranged for the Florida Army National Guard to provide four bottled water distribution points for customers affected by the loss of water pressure from Hurricane Irma.
Merritt Island, 785 E. Merritt Island Causeway (South Sykes Creek Boulevard) This is an effort to help provide bottled drinking water as the city works to restore water service.

Calhoun Falls issues boil water advisory for all restaurants.
CALHOUN FALLS, SC (FOX Carolina) – The town of Calhoun Falls said all residents are under a boil water advisory until further notice.
Town officials said DHEC is advising all customers of the Calhoun Falls Water System to boil water for at least one minute prior to cooking or drinking.
Ice made with water that has not been boiled should not be consumed either, the city said.
The boil water advisory was issued Tuesday and will be in place until further notice.
A major line break resulted in a loss of pressure and service to many people.
The boil water advisory was issued as a precaution until the water can be properly tested for contamination.
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Boil advisory in effect after large downtown LaGrange fire.
Despite the destruction, the small town of LaGrange is coming together so they can begin rebuilding.
"People do live in these buildings, they really do and it’s not all about fun let’s see this building come down.
Lives are really impacted because a lot of people have a lot of hard work into these homes,” said April Johnloz.
As time went on, the crowd became busy.
People came in droves from local businesses or homes offering help.
"The local citizens in LaGrange County, the ones that are here, they have been more than gracious on giving us enough room, as well as, helping us do anything we ask.
It might take a while to rebuild all the stuff and get all the debris but we’ll bounce back eventually,” said Katelyn McBride.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Fire officials say it took so long to put out because the building is so old.

The boil water advisory continues for Smithers as disinfection of the water distribution system begins 11 days after the advisory was first put into place.
Last Friday it was announced the notice would continue as water samples came back again testing positive for the bacteria coliform.
The Town of Smithers stated a “substantial” disinfection of the two reservoirs and the water distribution system will take place.
Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth and food preparation.
Bachrach stated since he’s lived in Smithers, this is the first boil water notice for the town.
Mayor Bachrach believes communication about the notice could have been better.
While the new school year has just got under way, the schools are open and “there’s no safety issue” the school district stated.
Since the notice has entered week two for the schools, they are bringing in alternative options for drinking water for staff and students.
Restaurants too are feeling the effects of the boil water advisory, with some even closing down when the notice was issued.
“This is stressful and costly for everybody in the restaurant business and we appreciate people’s patience, and we certainly understand the situation this puts them in,” Bachrach stated.

Brighton community tired of coping with filthy water.
BRIGHTON, Colo. — Carlos Morales tells the FOX31 Problem Solvers ugly, brownish-orange, foul smelling water is flowing through the pipes of his home at the Creekside South Estates in Brighton, and now he’s worried about his health.
Morales’ family must boil water or use bottled water to bathe, brush their teeth, do the dishes and everything else.
Mercedes Morales told the Problem Solvers she noticed hair loss after using the water.
“… take a shower with this water?
No!” Shepherd said she has had to tote gallons of fresh water to her horse’s stable.
The Problem Solvers contacted the HOA and learned that they are still working to provide safe drinking water to the community.
This is clearly a complicated problem.
On July 3, 2017 CDPHE issued the “boil water” order due to bacteria.
“Thank you that’s exactly what we’ve been wanting for.” The Problem Solvers will continue to follow the progress in the community as neighbors anxiously await the site of clean water coming from their faucets.

Here is the latest on Irma’s impact across the Lakelands: 6:20 p.m. Schools in Ware Shoals will be open tomorrow, Greenwood County School District 51 announced on Facebook.
Schools across the Lakelands were canceled Monday and Tuesday because of the storm.
More than 9,000 Duke customers are without power in Greenwood, Abbeville and Laurens counties, with the utility reporting 200 outages across those three counties.
The electric co-ops report close to 6,000 customers without power in Abbeville, McCormick, Laurens and Saluda counties.
All school districts in the Lakelands had canceled school Monday and Tuesday because of Irma.
A tree has been cleared from Reynolds Avenue, the City of Greenwood announced on Facebook, and no other roads appear to be closed in Greenwood County.
More than 20,000 people were without power, including nearly 6,000 in Greenwood County, nearly 4,500 in Abbeville County, more than 3,500 in McCormick County, nearly 6,000 in Laurens County and more than 700 in Saluda County, according to online outage maps from Duke Energy and the Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina.
"We still have power outages, there’s over 7,000 customers without power this morning," he said.
"They’re out working this morning to clear those roads," he said.
The power outages and concerns about trees on roads led administrators to cancel school for Tuesday in Ninety Six, Abbeville, Ware Shoals, Laurens and Clinton, while schools in Greenwood and McCormick were on two-hour delays.

Vicksburg boil water advisory lifted today.
VICKSBURG, MI – The boil water advisory for Vicksburg has been lifted following several tests and chlorination of the village’s water system.
Vicksburg officials lifted the boil water advisory this afternoon after repeated tests found no evidence of coliform bacteria.
Since Friday, Vicksburg water customers have been advised to boil their water or use bottled water while further tests were made.
The village also purchased equipment for emergency chlorination of the water system and since Friday has been injecting chlorine into the village water system.
Mallery, and former Village Manager Ken Schippers, who was called in to help deal with the problem, said chlorination will continue for at least another 30 days.
Vicksburg water customers are warned to boil their water after coliform bacteria was detected in one of five samples taken during routine monthly tests this week.
"We would rather not chlorinate."
While coliform bacteria is generally not harmful, it can be an indicator that other potentially harmful bacterium could be present or that there could be a problem with the treatment or distribution system, such as the pipes.
Testing has not shown the presence of other bacteria of greater concern, only the coliforms.