The village handed out free bottled water for four hours Saturday, responding to a water emergency, caused by a transmission line break that occurred Thursday.
[Richard J. Bayne/For the Times Herald-Record] GOSHEN – The Village of Goshen is expected to be under a boil water order through Monday, following a water main break Thursday that left parts of the village with low water pressure and led village officials to declare a state of emergency.
Village officials said they handed out hundreds of bottles of water free to village residents Saturday, and the bottled water distribution was to continue Sunday.
As a precautionary measure, Mayor Kyle Roddey said residents are advised to boil village water for at least two minutes before using it for either drinking or food preparation.
He said it took village authorities several hours to find the leak because it turned out to be in an isolated, wooded area at the intersection of Greenwich Avenue and Connector Road.
He said crews had to use off-road vehicles to reach the site of the break, and a number of agencies assisted, including the Orange County Executive’s Office and the state Department of Homeland Security.
“The interagency cooperation we got on this was overwhelming,” Rodney said Saturday.
Roddey said the village located the source of the leak about 3:30 p.m. Friday, and the repairs were completed by about 8:30 p.m.
He said residents experienced varied water pressure as crews shut off valves to keep water from escaping and to isolate the problem.
The water issues led Orange County to close its offices in the village for the day Friday, and the Orange County Courthouse and the Surrogate’s Court also closed.

Many people buy bottled water for the convenience alone, while others think that water out of bottles with pictures of mountain streams must surely be more pure than their tap water.
For example, both Pepsi’s “Aquafina” and Coca-Cola’s “Dasani” bottled waters are essentially bottles filled with tap water from their distribution plants.
If the bottled water you typically purchase does not have any of the notable distinctions below on the label then most likely it is tap water from the distribution company.
• Artesian Water: Comes from tapping an aquifer in which the water level stands above the top of the water source.
• Mineral Water: Comes from a source tapped at one or more boreholes or springs, originating from a geologically and physically protected underground water source.
Mineral water is distinguished from other types of water by its constant level and relative proportions of minerals and trace elements from the source.
For example: Sparkling mineral water, sparkling spring water, etc.
It is estimated that Americans buy 28 billion bottles of water a year and 80 percent of those end up in a landfill…every year.
If the bottles were connected end-to-end, they could reach from the earth to the moon and back over eleven times!
So, keep your family on the green-side of life, purchase a few refillable sport bottles and use your own tap water.

‘Keep Austin Hydrated’ Drive To Collect Bottled Water Donations For Homeless.
AUSTIN, TX — Nobody needs reminding of just how hot it’s been this summer in Central Texas, with a recent streak of triple-digit heat adding to residents’ woes.
Now imagine what that heat must be like for a homeless person living on the streets with nowhere to go.
Throughout the city, numerous homeless people are at risk for heat stroke, dizziness and fatigue due to the oppressive heat.
Hydration is critical in these times of intense heat, yet something as commonplace as bottled water is a luxury to members of the homeless community.
With that grim reality in mind, the "Keep Austin Hydrated" campaign will be launched on Aug. 15 to raise bottled water donations benefiting the homeless.
The initiative is a partnership between Mobile Loaves & Fishes and Tito’s Handmade Vodka, which has committed to matching donations for bottled water from as little as $1 to $7,500.
Austin residents wishing to pitch in can donate online by clicking here.
The drive runs through the end of the month.
"With the ‘Keep Austin Hydrated’ campaign, Austin will be able to provide water to over 7,000 homeless community members and encourage the people of Austin to start a larger conversation on finding ways to give back to people in need," organizers said.

That site closes today.
She has been living in this home for six months and gets cases of water from many different PODs, normally, 15 cases, once a week.
Moore has six cases of bottled water delivered to her door once a week, but gets bottled water from free distribution sites twice a week to garner the other six cases of the 12 total she uses every seven days.
On her 24th birthday, Tiondra Green, top left, places a case of bottled water onto the back of a pickup truck as her co-workers form a line to hand off cases of water efficiently on Friday, Aug. 11, at Calvary Missionary Baptist Church on Flint’s north side, which is one of two water distribution sites that the state is closing after 5 p.m. today.
Anticipating that free bottled water distribution will eventually end in Flint, Ellis Haley and his family have gathered extra, picking it up twice a week from two different locations, including a distribution point at Saint Mark’s Missionary Baptist Church, which closes today.
The POD closes Friday.
He worries that as PODs close in Flint over the next month, city residents will crowd those that remain open.
"It is going to be kind of hard for us to trust the city telling us the water is safe now.
William Holden, 90, prepares fishing rods for his great-grandsons at his home on the 4600 block of Billings Street in Flint on Wednesday, Aug. 9.
Holden picks up five cases of water, 1-2 times a week for him and his wife, Mamie Holden, 91, for drinking.

Here’s what you need to know before buying bottled water.
Think about filling up a thermos with ice water, rather than coffee, on your way out the door Tuesday – and every day this week.
Just in time for this week’s predicted heat wave, bottled water in the state of Washington will be subject to sales and use tax beginning Tuesday (Aug. 1), according to a release by the Washington Food and Industry Association.
According to the website, bottled water refers to “water sold in a safety-sealed container or package.
Bottled water is calorie free and does not contain sweeteners or other additives except that it may contain: antimicrobial agents; fluoride; carbonation; vitamins, minerals, and electrolytes, oxygen, preservatives and only those flavors, extracts, or essences derived from a spice or fruit.” But it does not include ice or water that is dispensed from a self-service container.
The Department of Revenue breaks down the taxation on bottled water on its website, including the two exemptions for bottled water delivery service: when there is no other source of potable water and when there is a prescription for bottled water.
KNDU25, an NBC affiliate in the Tri-Cities, is conducting an informal Facebook poll of what readers think about bottled water being taxed.
As you might expect, response has been more than 7-to-1 against.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – A national, non-profit health research and advocacy organization released a report this week that found widespread contamination of drinking water in Cleveland and throughout Ohio.
The Environmental Working Group determined that, in 2015, virtually every large water system in Ohio produced tap water with detectable levels of the same seven or eight contaminants that exceeded health guidelines, but not federal standards.
EWG obtained its health guidelines from the latest state and federal scientific research, as well as from health and environmental agencies and EWG’s own research, said David Andrews, a senior scientist at EWG.
Nearly all of the contaminants listed by EWG are byproducts of chlorine and other disinfectants used in the treatment process that water systems typically use to purify their raw water from natural sources.
All of the contaminants are legal, as there have been no additions to the nation’s list of regulated chemicals since 1996, the EWG said.
Chromium remains a problem in much of the nation’s drinking water, including Ohio, according to the latest EWG report.
All Ohio public water systems are in compliance for chromium federal standards, Lee said.
He noted that all of the Cleveland Water department’s 1.3 million customers receive drinking water that meets or exceeds all state and federal standards established by the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Ohio EPA.
"EWG recommends that you drink filtered tap water," Andrews said.
EWG’s drinking water quality database includes nearly 30 million test results for 502 contaminants.

The Truth About Hawaiian Bottled Water.
With a defeated sigh you drag yourself to a store to find no shortage of cold, refreshing, pristine, and over-priced Hawaiian bottled water.
Hawaii bottles an abundance of magical life giving elixirs but for the most part the water in the bottles of Hawaiian Springs, Waiakea or Hawaii Volcanic, to name a few, is not the water that most Hawaii residents drink.
In fact, our bottled water industries gravely contribute to the exacerbation of the global water crisis, which has profoundly negative impacts on our environment and local communities.
The global water crisis is no hoax.
Though some companies are turning to glass bottling most, including the main bottling companies in Hawaii, still use polyethylene terephthalate plastic.
The bottled water industry generates as much as 1.5 million pounds of bottles per year and only 13 percent of plastic bottles are actually recycled after being discarded.
In addition, though bottling companies can contribute jobs to a neighborhood, when the profit-driven interests of a corporation conflict with the interests of a local community or ecosystem, it is rarely the latter that benefit.
Most often, local communities and watersheds are left to deal with negative externalities when bottling companies decide to turn a blind eye.
Bottled water is no environmentally friendly product.

State closing 5 of 9 bottled water sites, Flint mayor calls it ‘the right direction’.
In a sign that the Flint water crisis is possibly nearer its end than the beginning, the state of Michigan is closing more than half of the bottled water distribution centers Flint residents have relied on since the crisis began.
For more than a year, Flint residents have included a stop at their neighborhood distribution center to pick up a case or two or more of bottled water during their errands.
“We’re headed in the right direction.” Weaver was joined by state officials to announce five of the nine water distribution centers handing out cases of bottled water and filters will close between now and September 5th.
The state is scaling back the bottled water distribution program as testing has shown Flint’s tap water is below the federal action level for lead.
He expects trust will remain an issue for a long time.
He says the alternative could have been the state closing all the centers.
However, there are another 18,000 or more pipes that need to be replaced.
Replacing them is expected to take another two and half years at least.
While old pipes are removed, ripping them out may loosen lead particles that can flow into the city’s water system.

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LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. (WFLA) — Pasco County officials on Tuesday suggested that residents who live near a huge sinkhole drink bottled water until water near the area is fully tested.
The sinkhole swallowed two homes, a boat, part of a road and a septic tank.
RELATED STORY: Videos tell story of homes destroyed by Land O’ Lakes sinkhole The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) Pasco is encouraging residents to use bottled water, especially residents within 500 feet of the sinkhole, until their drinking water is fully tested.
County administrators tested 20 homes for E. coli out of an abundance of caution.
The test results are expected by 3 p.m. today.
FDOH will be conducting additional tap water testing for 20 wells in the area of the sinkhole to test for contaminates such as metals, nitrates and arsenic.
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Residents are not allowed in those homes.
A fund has been created to help victims of the sinkhole.