originally posted on June 11, 2016

 

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – A boil water advisory is in effect for a portion of Battle Creek starting Friday night and Saturday night.

Residents on 28th St., between Goguac St. and Territorial Rd., those living on Floral Dr. between 28th St. and Goguac St., and residents on Highland Blvd. between 28th St. and 27th St., should boil their water before drinking it.

Right now, a portion of the city’s water system is shut down for improvements and repairs.

Whenever the pressure of a municipal water system is reduced for work, potential for bacteria to enter the system exists.

The boil water advisory has been issued as a safety precaution.

by Donna Thompson, originally posted on June 10, 2016

 

ILION — The boil water advisory in the village of Ilion continues as technicians are again at work making repairs to the ultra-violet system at the Ilion water treatment plant, according to Mayor Terry Leonard.

Village officials had hoped to lift the advisory sometime Friday after repairs were made Wednesday. Water samples were taken at that time and sent to the laboratory for analysis.

“The equipment was repaired Wednesday at 1 p.m. and Thursday at 4 a.m. it went down again,” said Leonard. “A technician from Maryland is on his way and a specialist from the company was traveling from Singapore to Israel to collect parts and is then coming to the U.S. Everyone is working frantically to fix this.”

The village had the ultra-violet system installed last year to meet surface water requirements.

The company that sold the village the equipment, Atlantium Technologies of Israel, was fabricating electronic parts to make repairs, said Leonard.

“A lot of high powered people are working on this,” he said.

In addition to getting the flow of water going again, technicians are working to get to the root of the problem, he said.

“Company representatives will be coming in July to meet with us and look at the site and make sure we have a permanently running operation,” said Leonard.

If technicians can get the system up and running this weekend, it would still be at least Monday or Tuesday before water samples would be back and the boil water advisory lifted and it could continue until the middle of next week, he said.

“It’s frustrating,” said Leonard.

Leonard received word of the initial malfunction Monday afternoon. The village contacted the state Department of Health and was directed to issue a boil water advisory.

 

by Tom Johnson, originally posted on June 10, 2016

 

The City of Jamesport has issued a precautionary boil water advisory for the entire community.  It is effective until 12 noon on Monday, for drinking and cooking water.

City Clerk Shelley Page explained that Friday morning work to replace a check meter resulted in a broken line.  As a result, water service had to be disrupted to the entire community.

Today’s repair work and boil advisory are not linked to a boil advisory issued on Thursday, after a broken main occurred after fire hydrant repairs. Thursday’s boil advisory was for water customers north of Main Street, and was to have expired Sunday at 4:30 PM.

Now, Friday morning’s boil advisory for the entire City of Jamesport does not expire until MONDAY at 12 noon.

The difficulties with the water system in the Jamesport community are being blamed on infrastructure in system, described by City Clerk Page as “old and prone to breaking”.

Rideau Street businesses close to the sinkhole affected by advisory

 

originally posted on June 9, 2016

 

Ottawa Public Health issued a precautionary boil water advisory for several addresses on Rideau Street, including the Rideau Centre, following Wednesday’s road collapse.

The affected addresses are:

• 41 Rideau Street (CIBC building).
• 45 Rideau Street (Holtz Spa).
• 47 Rideau Street (Chapters/Starbucks).
• Rideau Centre Shopping Centre (including GoodLife Fitness).

The advisory will remain in effect until further notice, according to a release issued Thursday.

The Rideau Centre food court is also closed until further notice from public health.

Precautions to take:

• If you are unable to boil water, you should consume only bottled water.
• Water users in the affected area are asked to bring their water to a rolling boil for at least one minute before using it for all consumption purposes, including drinking, making juice, ice and infant formula, as well as for use in food preparation.
• After boiling, the water should be left to cool before being used, or it should be placed in clean containers to cool in the refrigerator.
• Boiled water should be used when brushing teeth. Boiled water should also be used to rinse dishes after washing. Other non-consumption uses, such as showering, are safe.

Ottawa Public Health says the boil-water advisory will be rescinded once it’s satisfied water quality meets drinking water guidelines and tap water is deemed to be safe.

by Donesha Aldridge, originally posted on June 9, 2016

 

The entire Town of Edwards is under a boil water advisory.

Officials said a pipe collapsed on the water main near Mariah Road and Vicksburg Street.

Residents should boil their water before use until further notice.

For areas without water, crews expect to have the line repaired by 1 p.m. Thursday

UPDATE:

EDWARDS, Miss. (WJTV) — Contractors said they have repaired the water main break and that water has been restored. The boil water advisory is still in effect at this time.

TALLULAH, La — – The City of Tallulah has issued a precautionary boil advisory effective immediately for all City of Tallulah Water customers.

The City of Tallulah is experiencing problems with its water supply due to critical maintenance repair work at the City of Tallulah Water Plant.

It is recommended that all customers disinfect their water before consuming it, making ice, brushing teeth, pet consumption or using it for food preparation.

 

by Tom Johnson, originally posted on June 9, 2016

 

A precautionary boil advisory has been issued for a small section of eastern Laredo.  Involved are water customers on North 4th Avenue between First and Second Streets and those along Second Street between 4th Avenue and Route E.

The precautionary boil advisory for drinking and cooking water in a small section of eastern Laredo is in effect until further notice.  It was attributed to a contractor for fiber-optic cable work that hit a water line.

MADISON, E & W CARROLL, RICHLAND, TENSAS – The Walnut Bayou Water System has issued a boil advisory for all customers on the Walnut Bayou Water System.

The water system is experiencing problems with the water supply and is of questionable microbiological quality.

All customers should boil their water for one full minute before use.

by Jon Willing, originally posted on June 9, 2016

 

The city has issued a “precautionary boil water” advisory for three Rideau Street businesses as it continues to assess and repair the damage from the enormous sinkhole that opened up Wednesday morning.

The boil water advisory affects the Chapters/Starbucks location at 47 Rideau St., Holtz Spa next door at 45 Rideau and the CIBC building at 41 Rideau.

In a briefing to reporters, Mayor Jim Watson and other city officials said the cave in measures 40 metres long, 28 metres wide and up to five metres deep. Crews have been dumping concrete in since Wednesday night to stabilize the hole. More than 2,700 cubic metres of concrete have already been poured into the hole, entombing a van that had toppled in Wednesday as well as some other construction equipment that couldn’t be safely removed.

The cause of the sinkhole is still unknown, but the city said the damage did not affect the adjacent Rideau station LRT tunnel under construction.

Hydro service has been restored and the city hopes gas service will be restored soon. The ruptured gas line has left many businesses, including the nearby Chateau Laurier hotel, without hot water.

An OC Transpo bus carrying 40 to 50 people had passed over the site minutes before the collapse, which occurred at about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday.

Roads are still closed in the area, including the normally busy intersection of Rideau and Sussex. Watson said it could be “two to three” weeks before bus service resumes on Rideau Street. The road was already closed to all traffic except for buses and taxis. Buses have been rerouted onto the Mackenzie King Bridge.

The sinkhole meant more bad news Thursday for some businesses in the Rideau Centre.

A little after 9 a.m. an official from Ottawa Public Health arrived and ordered small restaurants in the Rideau Centre to close because their water may be contaminated.

“It’s very difficult,” said Umut Ozerkan who owns Michel’s Bakery Café. He said the loss from closing Wednesday and Thursday will cost him $5,000 to $6,000.

The bakery counter was loaded at the time with croissants, salads and sandwiches. Pots of coffee were full.

“Ninety per cent of the pastry is going to go to the garbage” he said. Salads and sandwiches were headed for the garbage too. And he hasn’t been told whether he can reopen Friday.

“Our rents are very high here,” and one bad day can make or break a full month’s business, he said.

Heavy equipment has surrounded the Rideau Street sinkhole overnight as the long job of repairing the gaping hole begins.

Already workers are underground, appearing and disappearing through a hole near the sinkhole’s west side.

The street, north and south sidewalks and businesses on both sides of Rideau remain closed from Sussex Drive to Dalhousie Street.

The Rideau Centre is mostly open. Passengers getting off buses on the MacKenzie King Bridge can enter the Centre but can’t cut all the way through it to Rideau on their way to work.

The Hudson Bay and the pedestrian overpass are closed.

Some traffic lights in the area are still out and police are directing traffic.

Meanwhile, getting in and out of downtown Ottawa isn’t going to be pretty this week.

All information below is from the City of Ottawa website.

The sinkhole on Rideau Street will mostly push east-west traffic to Laurier Avenue.

The Mackenzie King Bridge is now open to all traffic.

Driving west on Rideau, motorists will need to hang a left on Waller or Besserer street to get to Nicholas Street. From there, it will take a right onto Laurier, then a right onto Elgin and a left onto Albert Street to find an escape out the west end of downtown.

The following road closures are in place:

 

• Rideau Street/Wellington Street eastbound is closed between Elgin Street southbound and Dalhousie Street
• Rideau Street/Wellington Street westbound is closed between Dalhousie Street and Mackenzie Boulevard
• Colonel By Drive/Sussex Drive is closed between Daly Avenue and George Street
• Elgin Street northbound is closed between Albert Street and Rideau Street
• Colonel By Drive northbound is closed at Main Street
• Mackenzie King Bridge between Waller Street and Elgin Street is closed to general traffic for the peak period to accommodate transit movement.

Anyone trying to access downtown via Colonel By Drive will meet a detour at Main Street.

Finding a way to access a bridge to Quebec on the east side of Parliament Hill could be tricky since no one could access Sussex Drive from Rideau Wednesday afternoon. Outaouais residents heading home from Ottawa’s Parliamentary precinct might consider using the interprovincial bridges west of the Hill.

Now might be a good time for people to consider biking to work or shifting their work schedules to avoid the rush-hour traffic crunches exacerbated by the Rideau sinkhole.

originally posted on June 8, 2016

 

The entire city of Waynesboro is under a Boil Water Advisory after a construction crew hit a water main late this afternoon (Wednesday).

Waynesboro City Manager Jerry Colson said that a the contractor with a communications company was directionally boring some fiber optic lines and actually bored into the side of a 16 inch water line with about an inch to two sized hole.

“This is a 16 inch line and its fed off of all the water tanks, so it had a lot of pressure. It just about drained the city; it didn’t drain the tanks but we still maintained a small amount of pressure Luckily they were able to get it repaired pretty quickly and now we have both wells running and we should have full water pressure within the next two hours.”

Colson said that they were able to get it repaired before we actually ran out of water and we didn’t experience a complete pressure loss so it didn’t hamper their ability to fight fires.

The ban will remain in effect through at least Friday.

The City has also issued an outdoor watering ban until the repairs are completed and the water level is restored.

Further notice on boil advisory will be issued after lab results are released on Friday.