Boil-water advisory canceled for section of Williamstown Pike

originally posted on October 26, 2016

 

The Union Williams Public Service District has lifted the boil-water advisory for the area of Williamstown Pike between 809 and 2109.

The Union Williams Public Service District has issued a boil-water advisory for the area of Williamstown Pike between 809 and 2109.

The advisory will remain in effect as crews repair a broken waterline.

Customers are advised to boil their water for one minute and then let it cool before using it for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes, bathing or food preparation.

Boil Advisory Lifted: Kiroli-Darbonne Water System

originally posted on October 28, 2016

 

MONROE, La (News Release) – Update: Friday, October 28, 2016 at 4pm:
A boil advisory has been LIFTED for the Kiroli-Darbonne Water System.

Original Story:
A boil advisory has been issued for the Kiroli-Darbonne Water System due to repairs being made on a water main.

The repairs have caused an interruption in water services for customers on Bradley Drive, Patton Drive, Duncan Circle, Nichols Drive, High Circle, Neal Street, Lisa Drive, and Ridgeway Drive.

This advisory is in effect until further notice.

It is recommended that all consumers disinfect their water before consuming it (including fountain drinks), making ice, brushing teeth, or using it for food preparation or rinsing of foods by the following means:

+ Boil water for (1) one full minute in a clean container. The one minute starts after the water has been brought to a rolling boil.

Brief: Big Eddy boil water advisory lifted

A boil water advisory in the Big Eddy has been lifted as of Oct. 24.

originally posted on October 25, 2016

 

A boil water advisory that has been in place in the Big Eddy neighbourhood of Revelstoke has been lifted as of Oct. 24.

The City of Revelstoke recently took over the Big Eddy water system from the independent Big Eddy Waterworks as part of upgrade plans for the entire system.

In an Oct. 24 statement, the City of Revelstoke said they had consulted with Interior Health, who had lifted the advisory.

“Interior Health issued the advisory on a proactive precautionary basis. Further sampling of the Big Eddy water system showed no contamination. The City thanks Big Eddy Water System users for their patience during the advisory,” said the statement issued by the city.

Boil-water advisory in East Kelowna

originally posted on October 25, 2016

 

A boil-water notice was issued Tuesday afternoon in the South East Kelowna Irrigation District.

The district said in a news release a contractor for a property owner ruptured a 16-inch water main on easement through his property.

The increased flow from the water main break overwhelmed the chlorine system at the district intake, requiring a boil-water notice to be issued.

The water main break has been isolated and the chlorine system will be reactivated soon, the district said.

Untreated water has entered into the distribution system, and it will take a few days to ensure the distribution system is flushed and chlorine levels are back up to standards, the district said.

Kingston fire station shuts off water for drought victims after tests show contamination

by Jason Schreiber, originally posted on October 27, 2016

 

KINGSTON — The fire department has stopped handing out water to residents with dry wells after learning the fire station well has increased levels of the contaminant perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA.

The state Department of Environmental Services announced Thursday that two rounds of test results showed the station well contained 140 parts per trillion (ppt) of PFOA — a chemical used in cleaning products, pesticides and other industrial and commercial products that some worry could pose health risks.

The new state groundwater quality standard for PFOA and PFOS, adopted on an emergency basis over the summer and permanently last week, is 70 ppt.

Selectman George Korn said all of the town’s wells are tested every year and that results from water samples at the fire station in April were acceptable. However, that was before the new, lower standards for the chemical were established.

Korn said the town allowed residents to use the fire station water while awaiting the more recent test results because the samples from April appeared fine.

“We didn’t think there would be a problem,” he said.

The first test on Sept. 30 showed the elevated levels of contamination, at which point the state told the town to stop allowing residents to use a spigot at the 148 Main St. fire station to fill up buckets of water.

Fire Chief Bill Seaman said the station is now using bottled water.

More water samples were taken from the fire station and 10 nearby wells on Oct. 19. The results came back Thursday and showed the fire station still had the same elevated concentration.

According to DES, the additional wells that were tested did not exceed state standards for PFOA or PFOS, but did contain levels of PFOA and other non-regulated perfluorochemicals (PFCs).

Korn said water is now being made available to residents from a spigot at the back of Kingston Community Library on Library Lane. That water has been tested and showed no contamination, he said.

He said the town took action as soon as it learned about the contamination.

“I think we did everything reasonable to be responsible,” he said.

DES plans to work with town officials to investigate the presence of PFOA and other PFCs in the groundwater in the area.

The DES began a renewed focus on PFOA levels around the state last March, when PFOA was reported in water samples taken at Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics in Merrimack, and wells in the surrounding area were found to be contaminated.

Boil water advisory in Greenfield Park borough and Le Moyne sector STILL RUNNING – Boil water advisory in the municipalities of Brossard and Saint-Lambert LIFTED

Originally posted on November 5, 2016

 

LONGUEUIL, QC, Nov. 5, 2016 /CNW Telbec/ – 3:30 p.m. — Ville de Longueuil is maintaining boil water advisory in Greenfield Park borough and Le Moyne sector until at least Sunday. For Brossard and Saint-Lambert, boil water advisory has been lifted at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 5.

Boil water advisory in Greenfield Park borough and Le Moyne sector STILL RUNNING

Additional tests will be done today in the borough of Greenfield Park and Le Moyne sector. As the sample causing the release of the boil water advisory came from Greenfield Park, this measure is necessary in order to comply to the Règlement sur la qualité de l’eau potable of the ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques (MDDELCC). The results of these tests will be known Sunday. Longueuil will then issue another status report in order to keep citizens informed.

Ville de Longueuil reminds citizens of these sectors that, until further notice, it is recommended to boil tap water for at least one minute before consumption.

However, unboiled tap water can be used for washing dishes with hot water, making sure to dry it well, washing clothes, showering or bathing. Regarding young children and infants, it is recommended to wash them with a face cloth to prevent them from swallowing water and making sure they do not put soaked objects in their mouth.

Boil water advisory in the municipalities of Brossard and Saint-Lambert LIFTED

Last Thursday, as a precaution, Ville de Longueuil issued a boil water advisory for all areas served by the network of drinking water supplied by Le Royer plant, including the cities of Brossard and Saint-Lambert. The test results obtained from this network since then confirmed that the water is safe for consumption for Brossard and Saint-Lambert.

JKLM Energy fined for water contamination

originally posted on October 29, 2016

 

Potter County’s only active shale gas driller is moving forward with almost a dozen new wells at the same time it pays over a half-million dollars for violating state environmental laws more than a year ago.

While many companies have scaled back their operations across the region due to low prices and other factors, JKLM Energy is preparing to produce a substantial volume of natural gas in Potter County. By the end of 2017, the company could have as many a dozen wells drilled from pads in four locations.

In July, JKLM tapped a 13-acre tract of privately owned forest land off Rt. 44, not far from Patterson State Park in Summit Township. Activity is ramping up now at a development in the Fox Hill area of Ulysses Township with two pads and multiple wells planned; as well as an operation in Sweden Township off Burrows Road in the Reese Hollow area. These are in addition to the well that started producing gas last year, located off the Billy Lewis Road in Summit Township.

JKLM is focused on extracting gas from Utica Shale formations, found deeper than the vaunted Marcellus Shale. There is potential for other rock strata to be drilled from the same pads in future years.

Earlier this week, the Pa. Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) fined JKLM $472,000 for groundwater contamination that affected six private water wells in Sweden and Eulalia townships in September 2015.

A separate $100,000 penalty, to be administered by the county, will be used to install 24/7 monitors on 11 public water supplies across Potter County. These will log water quality data and serve as an early-warning system in the event of contamination. JKLM began drilling a well off North Hollow Road when a bit became stuck approximately 570 feet below the ground. A contractor illegally used about 100 gallons of a drilling surfactant, known as F-485, mixed with water to lubricate the bore and allow the expensive bit to be retrieved.

That chemical-laced substance migrated into the groundwater via subsurface fractures.

DEP said 17 complaints were received by owners of private water supplies. Six were found to have been impacted by the release. JKLM provided alternate water sources and has since installed treatment systems on the affected water supplies.

DEP also said that four public water supply wells operated by the Coudersport Borough Water Authority and Cole Memorial Hospital were sampled and monitored.

“Although they were all temporarily taken off-line as a precautionary measure, none appear to have been impacted,” the department reported.

Since late October 2015, JKLM has installed four groundwater monitoring wells; plugged the three gas wells at the site; continued to monitor the affected private water wells and the monitoring wells with no findings of contamination; and agreed not to apply for any new well permits or drill new wells on the site where the rock fracture was discovered.

Test wells may determine path of water contamination south of Colorado Springs

by Tom Roeder, October 27, 2016

 

Drilling has begun on a test well near Peterson Air Force Base to assess how military firefighters contributed to water contamination south of Colorado Springs, and an investigation into a recent, massive release of water tainted with toxic firefighting foam at the base remains ongoing.

The first of 18 test wells was being drilled Thursday near the Colorado Springs Airport terminal close to a runway on the south side of the base. The Air Force said soil samples will be checked for perfluorinated compounds contained in the firefighting foam and groundwater contamination will be monitored.

The chemical-laced firefighting foam, used at the base for decades, is a key suspect in contaminating wells in Widefield Aquifer, which delivers drinking water to customers in Security, Widefield and Fountain.

Residents there were sent scrambling for bottled water earlier this year after it was revealed that water from the aquifer had an average of 164 parts per trillion of perfluorinated compounds, more than double the amount allowed under an Environmental Protection Agency health advisory issued in May.

In an email, Peterson spokesman Stephen Brady said Air Force officials were “diligently working with local water purveyors, county health officials, and state health and environment leadership to investigate and determine if any of the identified potential source areas are contributors.”

Last week, the base confirmed that a tank containing 150,000 gallons of water contaminated with an unknown quantity of the foam was drained into the Colorado Springs Utilities sewer system. Brady had no immediate answers on the status of an investigation into the incident, including whether military police were involved in the probe.

Peterson officials said draining the tank required someone to turn a pair of valves and trip an electric switch to pump the contaminated wastewater into the city sewer. Utilities officials say the discharge went through a treatment plant, but the plant can’t remove the perfluorinated compounds, meaning the chemical wound up in Fountain Creek, which feeds the Widefield Aquifer.

Colorado Department of Health and Environment Spokesman Mark Salley said Thursday that state officials didn’t retest the aquifer after the incident, noting that most of the wells pulling water from the aquifer have been shut down for the coming winter.

The agency said it was waiting for the conclusion of the Air Force’s investigation into the discharge to determine impacts.

The Air Force is in the process of installing $4.3 million worth of filters to scrub the chemical from the aquifer’s water with charcoal. The service has also paid nearly $900,000 for a Colorado School of Mines study into more efficient ways to remove the chemical from drinking water.

“The Air Force is still determining the ideal site for conducting the demonstration test,” the school said in a news release. “Due to the benefits of proximity, Mines researchers hope the chosen site will be in Colorado.”

The Air Force used its chemical-laced foam to fight fuel fires. The foam forms a vapor barrier atop burning fuel to squelch flames. Perfluorinated chemicals have also been used in consumer products including stain-resistant carpet and non-stick cookware.

Studies have shown, though, that firefighting foam is a key culprit in water contamination for more than 6 million Americans because it is sprayed on the ground and easily flows into ground water.

The perfluorinated chemicals, first identified as toxic in Air Force research studies in the 1970s, have sparked growing health concerns for decades.

The EPA says the chemicals are a likely cause of some cancers and they have also been linked to kidney and liver ailments along with high cholesterol and low birth weights in infants. Experts say the chemical can stay in the human body for decades even after exposure has ceased.

Boil water advisory issued in Rush County

Originally posted on November 5, 2016

 

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment issued a boil water advisory for the Rush County RWD No. 1 public water supply. KDHE officials issued the advisory because of a loss of pressure. Failure to maintain adequate pressure can result in a loss of chlorine residuals and bacterial contamination.

The advisory took effect Saturday and will remain in effect until conditions that place the system at risk of contamination are deemed by KDHE officials to be adequately resolved.

Customers should observe these precautions until further notice:

• Boil water for one minute prior to drinking or food preparation, or use bottled water.

• Dispose of ice cubes and do not use ice from an automatic icemaker.

• Disinfect dishes and other food contact surfaces by immersion for at least one minute in clean tap water that contains one teaspoon of unscented household bleach per gallon of water.

• Water used for bathing does not generally need to be boiled.

• If your tap water appears dirty, flush the water lines by letting the water run until it clears.

Boil Water Advisory for Fancy Farm Lifted

By West Kentucky Star Staff, originally posted on November 4, 2016

 

FANCY FARM, KY – UPDATE: The Fancy Farm Water District has lifted the boil water advisory.

The Fancy Farm Water District has issued a boil water advisory for the area of Highway 1213 and Spalding Road, and for Willett Street in the Fancy Farm community.

Residents in this area are being advised to bring water to a boil before consuming it.

Officials have not released an estimate on how long the advisory will be in place.