BEVIL OAKS — From City of Bevil Oaks – Due to a water break the water district, PWS 1230049, is issuing a Boil Water Notice as a precaution.
Water customers should boil their water prior to consumption (e.g., washing hands/face, brushing teeth, drinking, etc).
Children, seniors, and persons with weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable to harmful bacteria, and all customers should follow these directions.
To ensure destruction of all harmful bacteria and other microbes, water for drinking, cooking, and ice making should be boiled and cooled prior to use for drinking water or human consumption purposes.
The water should be brought to a vigorous rolling boil and then boiled for two minutes.
In lieu of boiling, individuals may purchase bottled water or obtain water from some other suitable source for drinking water or human consumption purposes.
When it is no longer necessary to boil the water, the public water system officials will notify customers that the water is safe for drinking water or human consumption purposes.
Please share this information with all the other people who drink this water, especially those who may not have received this notice directly (for example, people in apartments, nursing homes, schools, and businesses).
You can do this by posting this notice in a public place or distributing copies by hand or mail.
If you have questions concerning this matter, you may contact Charlie Adams at 409-782-4588.

Residents worry contaminated well water is making them sick.
Andrew West and Janine Zeitlin/news-press.com More than two tons of bottled water poured into Charleston Park, the rural Alva community that lacks clean running water, thanks to donations from the local nonprofit outreach group Blankets & Blessings.
Jonathan Vanderbur, a Blankets & Blessings board member, spearheaded the Saturday effort with volunteers from Blankets & Blessings and the Charleston Park community center.
“It’s ridiculous that this is a problem in a place like Southwest Florida as rich as it is.
It’s embarrassing.
Recent research done for Alva Inc. shows Charleston Park is owned largely by people who don’t live there.
The parcel-by-parcel Alva Inc. review showed 28 percent, or 37 of the 131 owners of record in Charleston Park, have Charleston Park addresses.
Other addresses ranged from Honolulu to the United Kingdom to Las Vegas.
How to Help Anyone interested in donating water for Charleston Park can contact Vanderbur with Blankets & Blessings at AquaJets76@gmail.com.
The group is also collecting tax-deductible donations for water treatment.

Black water pours from taps in Napier 4 Dec, 2017 9:01pm 2 minutes to read Napier residents shocked to find blackish-brown water pouring from their taps this afternoon have been reassured the water is now safe to drink.
The Napier City Council warned today the city’s water reserves could be about to run out and urged locals to use the precious liquid sparingly.
But this afternoon most couldn’t use their taps at all after it turned the colour of black coffee.
It comes days after Napier’s water tested positive for E.coli, with the council deciding to chlorinate the entire city’s supply.
We had no drinking water at all so we went down to the supermarket to get bottled water.
The supermarket was full of other people also buying water, Love said – and he claimed the shop had hiked the price of bottled water from 89c to $1.10.
Angry locals posted on the Napier council’s Facebook page, saying bottled water had run out at the supermarkets.
• Napier water levels "critically low", supply could run out tonight • Water crisis could grind city to halt • E.coli found again in Napier water supply Love said around 9pm the water had cleared up but was "a bit murky".
He had cautiously tasted the water and said it "just tastes like chlorine – you can’t taste any mud".
Love was frustrated that the council did not call for people to save water earlier.

ROCKFORD, Mich. — Wolverine Worldwide says it will extend its whole-house drinking-water filtration program to residents in two targeted areas where the chemicals PFOA or PFOS have been test-confirmed.
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/teflon-and-perfluorooctanoic-acid-pfoa.html The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has been working with Wolverine since November 2016 on the affected Jewell and Wolven Study areas: https://wearewolverine.com/maps-2/ Wolverine Worldwide says eligible residents in those areas will be contacted by Culligan to arrange for the filters to be installed.
And Wolverine has decided to foot the bill for the testing, bottled-water service, single-tap filters and the whole-house systems.
The Rockford-based footwear maker says it selected the Culligan/Calgon filtration system because it “has been demonstrated to effectively remove PFAS, and ensures that these compounds are not returned to the environment.” The system uses something called “dual-canister granular-activated carbon absorption.” Wolverine adds that the filtration system has been used to treat water for PFAS in more than 1,000 homes nationwide.
On Saturday, a townhall meeting was held at Northview High School where residents could have their questions answered.
“I don`t want this to be about lawsuits, I want this to be about getting my neighbors’ clean water, and that`s my number one focus.
We`re in a burning building here folks.
It`s time to pull the fire alarm and make sure everyone`s safe before we start investigating the fire.
Experts were also on hand to elaborate on the contaminated water issue.
You can view regular updates from the company at http://WeAreWolverine.com

FISHERS LANDING — Virginia Tech researchers have found that increased levels of chloride-contamination in well water, like the water tested in wells in the town of Orleans, can corrode plumbing, leading to an increase in leaching of harmful metals.
Dr. Min Tang, a post-doctoral research associate at Virginia Tech, said the team tested how increased levels of salt in well water affected different metal plumbing materials that had traces of lead.
The results indicated that plumbing systems that used lead solders can leach lead when exposed to salt-contaminated water.
“We found that when the (salt) level increases, the leaching from the lead (solders) increases as well,” Dr. Tang said.
The samples the researchers collected showed 89 percent of the tested wells contained higher levels of chlorides than sulfates.
“We found that 12 percent of homes that we sampled were above that (lead action level) threshold,” Dr. Pieper said.
“Most people have indicated to us that they have switched to bottled water.” Dr. Pieper said the study is ongoing and the team will next look at how increased chloride levels cause weight loss, thinning and rust formation in plumbing.
The preliminary results from Dr. Jones’s study were presented during the Saturday meeting and showed that wells in the potential salt barn-affected area exhibited the highest median chloride level, at 230 milligrams per liter.
“We’re just using our data to see what we can validate.” The Town Council plans to deal with the salt crisis by building a water line along Route 12 to provide municipal water to hundreds of residents in Collins Landing, Seaway Avenue, Arcadia Park Road, Fishers Landing and Farrell Drive.
The board needs less than 10 critical easements, and has already begun the eminent domain process to take those remaining parcels.

Nonetheless, acting as a good neighbor, salt usage at the Milford Proving Ground has been reduced by 60% over the last two decades and GM submits regular reports on the groundwater quality at the Milford Proving Ground to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.”.
She said water tests, conducted by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) in June, found increased levels of arsenic and sodium chloride in her home.
I have health issues as a result of the contamination.” In 2005, Moore received a letter from the MDEQ that bottled water would be supplied.
The lawsuit states this is when McNamee, Porter and Seeley, a Michigan engineering firm, conducted a water study for GM that included evaluation of the source and extent of chloride contamination, existing water consumption and future demands, and possible locations for new water supply wells.
The lawsuit states that after receiving the study results, GM did not disclose the contamination to regulatory authorities or local residents, reduce salt usage, or monitor the groundwater and surface water contamination.
In May 1998, according to the suit, the MDEQ sent the subdivision developer a letter stating that chloride and sodium levels were above the drinking water requirement and that the reason was due to a source northeast of the subdivision.
On March 7, 2014, according to the lawsuit, Conestoga-Rovers Associates submitted to the MDEQ, GM’s 2013 Annual Salt Usage and Monitoring Report which acknowledged 18,414 tons of salt was used at the proving grounds from 2007 through 2013.
That same year, the lawsuit states that nearby water sources showed levels of sodium and chloride concentrations at 630 mg/l and 1,300 mg/l, which exceeded residential groundwater criteria of 160 mg/l for sodium and 250 mg/l for total chloride.
The suit alleges that until October 2014, when GM issued the migration notices to residents admitting contamination, and despite reports citing sodium chloride contamination for more than 30 years, GM actively concealed and ignored the level of pollutants leaching into neighboring groundwater and drinking water sources.
According to the lawsuit, pollution stemmed from as much as 7,430 tons of salt, concentrated in a six-square-mile area, used by the proving grounds to maintain roads and other testing areas at the facility.

The water main leak in Daviess County is causing bottled water to fly off shelves like milk and bread during a snowstorm.
“We went to Kroger, we went to Walgreens and IGA, they’re all out,” said Owensboro resident Jameka Calhoun.
But around dinner time, Even Steven on Old Hartford Road was busy selling case after case of water “We have five, well a total of seven palettes, we’re down to one and a half palettes,” said manager Keisha Shadwick.
“You’ve got to worry about what to drink and how to feed the kids now, especially babies.
Even Steven’s water is going for $6.99 a case, but Shadwick says she’s heard some places are selling them for over $15.
“A lot have called in and asked to hold back water for them so we are doing that especially for people that have to have the water,” said Shadwick.
Calhoun works the night shift, “We woke up and all the waters gone so we’re here.
She says she needs the water for her niece and nephews, and hopes two cases is enough to last through tomorrow, “We need the water to brush our teeth, get baths, things like that.” Even Steven says when they run out, they’ll keep searching for more until the advisory is lifted.
(This article was originally published November 30, 2017)

I’ll be the moderator at this event, to be held at the Vrij Universiteit (Free University), Amsterdam The livestream of the first hour should be interesting.
The speakers will be: Dr. Karen Meijer is a researcher at Deltares focussing on the links between Climate, Water Scarcity and Conflicts.
She holds a PhD in water resources management and MSc’s in civil engineering and international public policy and public management.
Karen will present a global model that aims to estimate future risk on conflict based on the prediction of extreme hydro-meteorological events.
Dr. Louise van Schaik is Head of the Clingendael International Sustainability Centre and Senior Research Fellow at Clingendael Institute.
She has published various policy reports and academic articles and teaches professionals on EU external relations, international climate change policy and other topics within her fields of interest, such as natural resource scarcity and global public health.
Dr. Andreas Sterl is senior Scientist at the Dutch Royal Meteorological Institute in the research group on weather and climate modelling.
His area of expertise is the coupling between ocean and atmosphere and oceanic processes taking place at the air-sea interface.
He has also investigated the connections among the drought in Syria, the war, and climate change.
The livestream will begin at 13:00 CET https://av-media.vu.nl/VUMedia/Play/79e69daa843e42bdbcc2f36cb9c9e07e1d

The government’s plan to introduce a royalty on bottled water exports has hit a barrier.
A senior official has told MPs it would breach international trade agreements, NZME reports.
"We are not in a position to apply an export tax on water as a consequence of some of our existing free trade agreements," Vangelis Vitalis told a select committee hearing today.
Mr Vitalis, deputy secretary for trade at MFAT, said a royalty would run up against the free trade agreement with China and the recently-negotiated Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
"The new agreement (the CPTPP) contains the same prohibition of export taxes," he said.
The coalition agreement between Labour and NZ First commits the government to introducing a royalty on bottled water exports.
Opposition leader Bill English says it looks like the government will be forced into a u-turn.
"While the idea has merit – the previous government took the responsible step of seeking recommendations on the matter – the new government has committed to it without even seeking advice from its legal and trade experts," he said.
In parliament, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters said the government was working on the issue.
"The government’s position is that there are many alternatives to arrive at the kind of result that a royalty would impose upon any taker of water," he said.

MOORHEAD, MN (Valley News Live) 11 months after a drinking fountain in Horizon Middle School’s East Campus tested positive for high levels of copper, the West Campus is now battling a similar issue.
A mother from Horizon Middle School contacted VNL frustrated that water from the brand new West Campus building has been deemed unsafe to drink.
Her daughter said after students complained that the water tasted funny on Tuesday morning, they were told to stop drinking it.
Water from the Horizon Middle School West Campus is being tested due to concerns with the drinking water.
School will remain in session.
Too much copper can cause short term adverse health effects including vomiting, diarrhea, stomach cramps and nausea.
In January at least 10 kids became sick after drinking water at Horizon Middle School East Campus.
A statement sent to VNL on Wednesday by Moorhead Area Public Schools regarding the incident read: “The water is being tested for copper levels.
Results of the water testing are not yet available.” Despite actions taken by Horizon Middle School West Campus and district administrators to prevent students from drinking the contaminated water, the problem has left many parents wondering how new plumbing could cause this issue.
If you have any questions please contact Horizon Middle School West Campus or the Moorhead Area School District Administration offices.