AVON, OH — Disease-causing organisms may have entered part of the city’s water supply, the city said Wednesday.
A water line broke on Detroit Road on Wednesday morning.
As a result, the city is asking impacted residents to use bottled water or to boil their water before consuming it.
Businesses and homes on the aforementioned part of Detroit Road, and all North Star Lane residents, will need to boil their water.
Anyone who starts to have stomach ailments should contact their doctor.
People with compromised immune systems, babies and some elderly residents may be at increased risk.
The boil alert is a precautionary measure, the city said.
Subscribe However, the city also did not provide a timeline for when the water will be safe to use again.
Patch will update this story once more information becomes available.
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With those temperatures dropping, your pipes may be in danger of freezing.
The biggest thing – don’t do anything dangerous while trying to thaw your pipes.
"Things not to do is use propane torches.. anything that could lead to a fire,” Rhame said.
If outside faucets are dripping or leaking, make the necessary repairs or call a plumber before freezing temperatures arrive.
If your washing machine is in an unheated garage, turn off water supply lines leading to the washer and disconnect the hoses if temperatures have dropped below freezing.
Open kitchen and bathroom cabinets beneath sinks (located along outside walls) to allow heat in the room to circulate around uninsulated pipes.
And if your pipes have already frozen, like George Rhame’s, here are some other tips from Roto-Rooter about what to do next: Shut-off the water main leading into the structure and open faucets indoors.
Examine exposed pipes for leaks.
Even with the water main turned off, there will be enough pressure to reveal leaks once the pipe has thawed.
Even if no leaks are found, a plumber should examine pipes that experienced a hard freeze.

The residents of the Prospect Terrace housing complex haven’t had water in more than 24 hours.
“Nobody sent us no notices.
Nothing,” said Toni Manns, a resident of Prospect Terrace.
Manns has been without water for more than a day and has no idea when she’ll get it back.
“The girl upstairs, she got three kids.
Her kids couldn’t go to school today,” Manns said.
We went upstairs with Manns to meet her neighbor with four children who’ve been struggling without water too.
The office of the mayor of East Pittsburgh told Channel 11 the problem " stems from a New Year’s Eve water main break in Turtle Creek that feeds into that complex, and the frigid temperatures have hampered efforts to repair the break.
There is no word on how long it might take."
Manns said her neighborhood needs a water buffalo or cases of bottled water.

A boil water notice is in effect for the cities of Waveland and Bay Saint Louis.
We had our heating strips to try to prevent this.
Obviously with this cold of temperatures that just wasn’t enough," said Anderson.
That panel froze.
The loss in pressure caused a boil water notice to be issued.
"They’re real patient with us.
They’re under a boil water notice too at home so they completely understand," said Santiago.
He and other restaurant owners, like John "Chappy" Chapman at the Rum Kitchen have precautions in place, like extra ice and bottled water that will help them make it through.
"Every now and then stuff happens.
Then after Katrina it was really handy having Kentwood so we just stayed with them," said Chamberlain.

An area of contaminated groundwater beneath a housing development in Evansville has been partially removed from the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List, about 30 years after it was designated a superfund site, the agency announced Tuesday.
Seven other superfund sites from across the country were also deleted, or partially removed, from the list.
The chemical compounds soaked into the soil and polluted part of the relatively shallow aquifer beneath the subdivision and moved gradually in the direction of the North Platte, Schmidt said.
The water pollution from the gas plant has been removed from the superfund list.
“That does not mean we are simply walking away,” Schmidt said of the deleted parcel of the Mystery Bridge site.
“We are still going to go back every five years, look at it and make sure everything is okay.” The agency is currently considering whether the second source of pollution, the truck wash, can be removed from the list as well, he said.
The EPA has been addressing the pollution at Mystery Bridge since the mid-’80s, after residents complained of poor air and water quality.
State, local and federal investigation led to the discovery of contaminants and a warning that locals should not drink, wash or cook with their water due to the hazard of the chemical contamination One resident’s water was found to have 160 parts per billion of benzene, according to Star-Tribune reporting in 1986.
The EPA assisted in connecting the area to the city water system and improving the water treatment facilities.
The nearby oil field services truck wash was owned by Dow Chemical Company and Dowell-Schlumberger.

Periods of low pressure in the water distribution system can increase the potential of bacteria.
LELAND — A boil water advisory has been issued for Leland water customers in the Brunswick Forest neighborhood.
Brunswick Forest water customers experienced periods of low water pressure and outages around 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to a Leland news release.
Periods of low pressure in the water distribution system can increase the potential of bacteria.
The town of Leland advises that Brunswick Forest water customers use bottled water or boil “all water used for human consumption,” including drinking, washing dishes and food preparation, brushing teeth and making ice.
Vigorous boiling for one minute should kill disease-causing organisms that could be present in the water, the release said.
Pregnant women and children below the age of six months should use an alternate water supply, such as bottled water, whenever possible since boiling water concentrates levels of nitrates that may be present in the water.
The advisory will remain in effect until further notice from the town of Leland.
Reporter Makenzie Holland can be reached at 910-343-2371 or Makenzie.Holland@StarNewsOnline.com.

In the meantime, Waterloo Community Schools is working to address the water boil order at its buildings in Evansdale.
Officials said bottled water will be available during the school day at Poyner Elementary and Bunger Middle schools.
Bathrooms are safe to use and will be stocked with hand sanitizer.
School meals will be safely prepared offsite and brought in to serve.
Faas noted that the Salvation Army of Waterloo-Cedar Falls brought 36 cases of drinking water to the city’s Community Response Center for the public to use.
Also, Kwik Star stores were delivering five pallets of drinking water to the Community Response Center and available for the public after 4 p.m. Tuesday.
"I’m pleasantly surprised both of them," Faas said of the donations.
They have their own people to take care of.
For them to donate 36 cases, I’m pleasantly suprised.
And Kwik Star has been a very good corporate neighbor for our community ever since they built here.

Thiruvananthapuram: Varkala municipality is mulling a ban on use of bottled water in tourist resorts in the area as part of its ongoing campaign to become the first zero waste municipality in the state.
"Very soon we will impose a complete ban on bottled water in the resorts.
This will be a crucial step in our mission to attain the status of first zero waste municipality in the state," said Bindu Haridas, chairperson, Varkala municipality.
Over the last few months, the municipality has been in the process of reducing use of plastic carry bags and other disposables as part of the campaign.
As the first step, the functioning of centralized waste treatment plant was reduced and aerobic bins were installed.
The municipality charges collection fees up to Rs 4,000 from each resort for processing the waste using aerobic bins.
Residents associations also joined the municipality and completely did away with use of disposables in their functions.
"We have also issued green certificates to such associations," says Bindu Haridas.
District collector K Vasuki has worked closely with the project, organizing awareness sessions and endorsing the need for minimal use of various materials.
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Or it looks a little cloudy.
Bottled water has become the No.
1 beverage choice in the U.S., with 12.8 billion gallons sold in 2016, according to the Beverage Marketing Corp. Wholesale sales totaled $16 billion last year.
About 45 percent of bottled water, including leading brands Dasani and Aquafina, comes from public tap water that the companies treat before they bottle it, according to the companies’ websites and California-based scientist Peter Gleick, who wrote the book “Bottled and Sold.” Arizona State University professor Elisabeth Graffy, who used to work at the U.S. Geological Survey, said consumers shouldn’t assume any bottled water is completely safe.
Phoenix officials said they conduct more than 5 million tests on the city’s water systems every year, and they test for more than 100 substances.
While there are some similar regulations, according to a 2010 analysis by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, 18 percent of bottled water brands do not provide customers with the source of the water, and 32 percent do not give any information about how they test the water.
During the summer and fall, tap water throughout the Phoenix Valley of the Sun can develop an unappealing, musky taste and smell.
Algae builds up over the summer and collects in canals that valley-area cities use to transport the tap water supply, according to the city of Phoenix.
The city filters out the algae, but the taste and smell can linger.
“But I go more by taste and smell, and there’s just something odd that sticks in your head.” Wood has a reverse-osmosis system that filters the tap water in her home, but she relies mostly on bottled water.

The bitter cold has been causing a lot of problems for Long Islanders, including some who have been left without water due to a water main break.
The road started to buckle early New Year’s Day near the corner of Cornwell Avenue and East Dover Street on the Valley Stream-Malverne border.
It was caused by a break in a 16-inch water main.
Crews say they worked all day in the frigid temperatures to fix the issue.
Management at American Water says it’s providing bottled water to customers who do not have water service.
Elsewhere, the Mineola Fire Department had to extinguish a house fire on Evelyn Road.
Firefighters say the conditions were slippery and dangerous.
Other residents are enjoying the cold weather, such as those who participated in a polar plunge at Point Lookout.
However, another fundraising polar plunge event in Northport was called off Monday due to icy waters and frigid temperatures.
It’s being renamed as the Shamrock Plunge.