The storm and the heavy rains that followed overflowed drainage districts, cut off water and prompted hundreds of boil-water notices across the Gulf Coast.
More than a dozen boil-water notices remain in effect across affected areas.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality reports more than 3,700 people in those areas haven’t had clean drinking water since late August.
In Rose City, the city’s boil notice hasn’t been lifted because the plan hasn’t met TCEQ standards for pH levels and other chemicals, said Janice Ratcliff, the city’s water operator.
Running water returned to the city’s 600 residents in September, but it still requires a two-minute rolling boil before safe consumption.
"It’s been so touch-and-go,” Ratcliff said.
It just makes no sense to remove the notice just to have to go right back on it.”
Ratcliff said the city’s original goal was to have the notice rescinded for good by Thanksgiving.
But issues with insurance have pushed back installing the necessary equipment.
Mayor Bonnie Stephenson said that faith-based organizations have been working to provide Rose City with enough bottled water.

Charity donates hundreds of bottles in water drop to Te Awa School 6 Dec, 2017 5:00am 3 minutes to read Three hundred litres of bottled water has been donated to a Napier school in the wake of the city’s recent water crisis.
Yesterday Rapid Relief Team donated 500 bottles of water to Te Awa School to distribute among its students and those in the wider community who needed clean water.
Te Awa School principal Tim Van Zyl said the school hadn’t run out of water, but had experienced dirty water coming out of taps.
"I know we’ve had a couple of teachers that were saying they still had brown water yesterday morning and a couple of families also had brown water.
When approached by Rapid Relief Team Mr Van Zyl said he was only too happy to accept and distribute the water.
"We’re going to distribute it out to our families.
It’s for our kids but we’ll get our kids to take it home," the principal said.
Rapid Relief Team Hawke’s Bay co-ordinator Andrew Taylor said the charitable organisation had approached the council and asked if there was a need for water.
"​ Mr Taylor said they dropped off 500 600ml water bottles yesterday afternoon, part of a several thousand-strong stock they keep on standby for emergencies.
"They [the council] have got a difficult problem on their hands and supporting them is all the Rapid Relief Team likes doing; showing care and compassion to those in need in our community."

The Kroger Company on Monday recalled Comforts FOR BABY Purified Water with Fluoride after mold was found in the product.
The recalled water is sold in clear, one-gallon containers with sell-by dates from April 26, 2018 to Oct. 10, 2018.
It was sold at Kroger stores, including Kroger, Kroger Marketplaces and Payless Super Market, in North Carolina and South Carolina, among other states.
Testing by Kroger confirmed the mold as Talaromyces penicillium.
The FDA said inhaling or touching the mold or its spores can cause an allergic reaction in some people that includes symptoms like sneezing, runny nose, red eyes and skin rash.
"Allergic reactions to molds are common and can happen immediately after touching or inhaling mold spores, or later," the FDA said.
Molds can irritate the eyes, skin, nose, throat, and lungs, even in people who aren’t allergic to them."
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the mold might not be visible to the naked eye.
The labels also state "DISTRIBUTED BY THE KROGER CO, CINCINNATI, OHIO 45202," according to the FDA.
Anyone who purchased the product can return it to the store for a refund.

“I really think it shows huge disrespect to the people.” Widespread salt contamination has afflicted residents in the town for decades and has been widely blamed on the state Department of Transportation’s salt Barn on Route 12.
The town’s solution has been to build an estimated $13 million water line, a project that is funded with about $5 million in grants and about $8 million from a no-interest loan from the Environmental Facilities Corp. Rather than relying on a loan, which would require residents to pay a flat annual cost of $625 plus $3.50 per 1,000 gallons of water, residents and officials have called on the state to pay for the construction of the entire project so they won’t have to bear the cost.
Joe A. Rotella, Fishers Landing, said the state has “got to own up to” the contamination and replace the loan with a grant.
“I feel like the real question is whether the state will be held to the same standard in dealing with the issue,” said Stephanie G. Weiss, a Fishers Landing resident.
Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday announced the construction and opening of a new North Country Welcome Center by fall 2018 near the Thousand Islands Bridge.
“The thing that upsets me the most is that they’re going to be the first thing that’s hooked up because they’re closest” to the water source, Mr. Rarick said.
It just makes me sick to my stomach to think that could happen.” Several residents, including Mrs. Weiss, Mr. Rotella and Laura A. Lamon, Seaway Avenue, criticized the state for allocating funds to a new welcome center and not providing additional money to the water line after a presentation at the Fishers Landing fire hall where Virginia Tech researchers, the same who uncovered the widespread lead contamination in Flint, Mich., presented their findings from an analysis of 90 samples from private wells in the town they collected in 2016.
“As a further example of state assistance to Orleans, EFC has provided $900,000 for the costs of bottled water and testing.
After studying the samples, Min Tang, a post-doctoral research associate at Virginia Tech, and Hisyam Mohsin, an undergraduate research assistant, conducted a lab experiment using synthetic water that replicated the Orleans water and found that increased levels of chlorides in the well water, possibly from road salt, increased corrosion in plumbing materials.
“The (state) Department of Environmental Conservation has been unable to conclusively tie the salt contamination to road salt use or storage based upon a geological assessment and information provided to DEC by the Town of Orleans,” said DOT spokesman Joseph Morrissey in an email, adding that the assessment “was based on a review of surface water gradients and features to determine the source of salt contamination present in Orleans.

Anyone who wants to “opt out” of the settlement — meaning they get no money from it but could file their own case — has to submit an exclusion request to the court postmarked no later than Dec. 8.
In the case, lawyers for residents and businesses had alleged that West Virginia American Water Co. did not adequately prepare for or respond to the chemical spill and that MCHM-maker Eastman Chemical did not properly warn Freedom Industries of the dangers of its chemical or take any action when Eastman officials learned that the Freedom facility along the Elk River in Charleston was in disrepair.
Claims may be submitted online at that same site, and more information also may be obtained by calling 1-855-829-8121.
As with other class-action cases, residents and businesses don’t have to have signed up with a lawyer prior to the settlement to be part of the class.
Filing claims gives class members more options about how much compensation they could receive.
The class covered by the case includes 224,000 residents and 7,300 businesses.
Exclusions should be mailed to WV Water Settlement Opt Outs, P.O.
Class members who do not want to exclude themselves may still object to all or part of the settlement.
The deadline for such objections also is this Friday.
Those should be sent to United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia Clerk of the Court, Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse, 300 Virginia St. E., Charleston, WV 25301.

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. – Some residents are frustrated over the lack of answers about the water contamination in Airway Heights.
Julie Dibble says when she found out about the chemicals PFOS and PFOA in her water, she trusted that Fairchild Air Force Base would get it cleared up quickly.
She says initially she wasn’t even mad.
But now almost a year since the base first found out its own water supply was contaminated with the pair of chemicals, and almost seven since it tested private wells around them, her patience has worn thin and she’s not happy.
But after months of her family getting its water supply delivered in jugs courtesy of the Air Force, she says she’s had enough.
"I feel like we are numbers on a map," she said.
Her home is within eyesight of the base and last time her well was tested it was 65 times the health advisory.
She said their plan for the property had to been to grow a garden and raise chickens and other animals.
Meantime she says they have a flock of 20 chickens who’s eggs the can’t eat.
"I would just like to know why it is taking so long, and why nothing was done sooner," said Callender.

A recall of baby water that might have mold prompted the rare FDA consumer alert Monday evening.
After getting complaints of mold in the water.
Kroger tested the water and found Talaromyces penicillium.
It also warns that drinking water with that kind of mold can affect babies who have a damaged immune system.
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“Allergic reactions to molds are common and can happen immediately after touching or inhaling mold spores, or later,” the alert warns.
Molds can irritate the eyes, skin, nose, throat, and lungs, even in people who aren’t allergic to them.” The water was sold in gallon jugs at Kroger, Kroger Marketplace, Food 4 Less, Jay C, Jay C Food Plus, Owen’s, Payless Super Market and Ruler stores mainly in the Midwest and South: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Anyone with this water should return it for a refund.
David J. Neal: 305-376-3559, @DavidJNeal

The storm and the heavy rains that followed overflowed drainage districts, cut off water and prompted hundreds of boil-water notices across the Gulf Coast.
More than a dozen boil-water notices remain in effect across affected areas.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality reports more than 3,700 people in those areas haven’t had clean drinking water since late August.
In Rose City, the city’s boil notice hasn’t been lifted because the plan hasn’t met TCEQ standards for pH levels and other chemicals, said Janice Ratcliff, the city’s water operator.
Running water returned to the city’s 600 residents in September, but it still requires a two-minute rolling boil before safe consumption.
"It’s been so touch-and-go," Ratcliff said.
It just makes no sense to remove the notice just to have to go right back on it."
Ratcliff said the city’s original goal was to have the notice rescinded for good by Thanksgiving.
But issues with insurance have pushed back installing the necessary equipment.
Mayor Bonnie Stephenson said that faith-based organizations have been working to provide Rose City with enough bottled water.

The new chairman of the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners says he wants the county to deal with water problems faced by residents who have wells that have elevated levels of a potentially harmful chemical.
“That’s the thing I see as the most pressing,” he said.
It’s not known if those effects are the same in humans.
Lancaster said he wants the county to work with state officials.
The county school system has been providing bottled water to students at Gray’s Creek and Alderman elementary schools since traces of GenX were found in a well that provides water to Gray’s Creek.
The schools are about four miles from the Chemours plant.
Lancaster took the commissioners’ gavel from Glenn Adams, who has served as chairman for the past year.
Adams talked about GenX before the commissioners’ elected a new chairman.
“We will take care of those citizens in Gray’s Creek and near that plant,” he said.
“I’m proud to have served the citizens.” Adams thanked Commissioner Charles Evans for his work as vice chairman.

LONDON — It is a worldwide emblem of urban life, as ubiquitous as the clutched paper cup of latte or the sight of a pedestrian in rapt communication with the screen of a smartphone.
It is the plastic bottle of water, poking from a backpack or grasped in a gloved hand, stacked on the refrigerated shelves of supermarkets, or discarded in the gutter.
There was a time when skeptical old-timers derided bottled water as little more than a marketer’s trick to lure consumers into paying for a liquid that should cost next to nothing.
And, equally, there were many people who asked where else they would find water when public drinking fountains had all but disappeared.
London mayors generally seek to establish a distinctive legacy.
Apart from a degree of buffoonery, Mr. Khan’s predecessor, Boris Johnson, who is now Britain’s foreign secretary, made a name in transport, introducing the Boris Bus, a distinctive update on the traditional double-decker, and the Boris Bike, a bicycle for hire on the streets of the capital.
Mr. Khan, by contrast, seems to be focusing on the environment, introducing measures intended to reduce air pollution and, now, its surfeit of plastic.
But it may be some time before the city sprouts new drinking fountains.
Globally, plastic bottles have become an environmentalist’s nightmare, with some reports suggesting that about half of the billions of bottles in circulation are not recycled.
In 2008, Mr. Johnson, the former mayor, announced plans for a great expansion of public drinking fountains but, Mr. Khan’s office said on Monday, “several proposals for providing water fountains and bottle-refill stations were explored but there were concerns over high installation costs.” However, there may be other factors, such as pressure from interest groups to protect retailers at train stations, for instance, who profit by selling bottled water and would not welcome the competition from free water fountains, The Guardian said.