A power outage Tuesday morning has left the Town of Morris under a boil water advisory.
A distribution pump failure this morning has led to the loss of water pressure in the Town of Morris distribution.
There will be another water test being conducted later today, but to ensure public health protection this advisory will be in place well into Friday, March 1.
Water users must be advised that all water used for consumption be brought to a rolling boil for at least one minute.
This includes water used for drinking, preparing food, making ice, washing vegetables and fruit, brushing teeth, and making infant formula.
As an alternative, individuals may also choose to use a known safe source of water such as bottled water.
Water may be used for general domestic purposes including hand washing, bathing and showering (provided the water is not swallowed), dishwashing and laundry.
More information will be added as it’s available.

In Jamaica, bottled water is often seen as a necessity, even though the country struggles so much with plastic pollution that the government recently implemented a countrywide ban on plastic bags, straws, and Styrofoam.
At the children’s ward of a local hospital, for example, tap water isn’t safe to drink, particularly for children with compromised immune systems.
But the hospital now has a new source of readily available, clean drinking water: It’s using solar-powered “hydropanels” on the roof that pull moisture from the air.
“We’re not only solving for resilient drinking water but also reducing plastic waste,” says Cody Friesen, CEO of Zero Mass Water, the startup that makes the technology in use at the hospital, the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica.
The project is the company’s first installation as part of the Caribbean Climate Smart Accelerator, a program that aims to build resilient infrastructure in the region while supporting economic growth.
The company’s product, called Source, “use a material science approach that absorbs water from the atmosphere passively,” says Friesen, who is also an engineering professor at Arizona State University.
Nanomaterials inside each panel absorb vapor from the air, and then solar power pushes the water into a reservoir, where minerals are added for taste.
Then the water can be sent by pipe to taps inside.
At the hospital, 20 panels on the roof can provide almost 800 gallons each month, more than patients need.
In India, the panels are at schools.

Since Gift of the Givers’ intervention on February 12, team members from the organisation have been stopped by members of the public asking for water.
These are the sentiments of hundreds of residents,” Sooliman said.
The Gift of the Givers “water man”, Dr Gideon Groenewald, with a gift for finding rocks with the purest water, helped map out a plan where an exploratory borehole was drilled.
Surplus water will be housed in JoJo tanks at the periphery of the university, freely available to all citizens in keeping with Dr Mabizela’s sentiment that the people of Makhanda are the people of Rhodes University.
“A third borehole will be drilled in the university.
Drilling is also earmarked along the Waainek Water Works, to be pumped directly into the reservoir.
This is our third active borehole.
Several events are held at Settler’s throughout the year.
"In the first week of March, 30 000 people a day will visit the monument.
Gift of the Givers can be reached on the toll-free number: 0800 786911 and via info@giftofthegivers.org Cape Times

Using data from public records requests and independent researchers, the AP examined 43 mining sites under federal oversight, some containing dozens or even hundreds of individual mines.
The records show that at average flows, more than 50 million gallons (189 million liters) of contaminated wastewater streams daily from the sites.
In many cases, it runs untreated into nearby groundwater, rivers and ponds — a roughly 20-million-gallon (76-million-liter) daily dose of pollution that could fill more than 2,000 tanker trucks.
The remainder of the waste is captured or treated in a costly effort that will need to carry on indefinitely, often with little hope for reimbursement.
The volumes vastly exceed the release from Colorado’s Gold King Mine disaster in 2015, when a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cleanup crew inadvertently triggered the release of 3 million gallons of mustard-colored mine sludge, fouling rivers in three states.
Some sites feature massive piles or impoundments of mine waste known as tailings.
A tailings dam collapse in Brazil last month killed at least 169 people and left 140 missing.
But even short of a calamitous accident, many mines pose the chronic problem of relentless pollution.
Tainted wells In mountains outside the Montana capital of Helena, about 30 households can’t drink their tap water because groundwater was polluted by about 150 abandoned gold, lead and copper mines that operated from the 1870s until 1953.
Most are controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, which under Trump is seeking to consolidate mine cleanups with another program and cut their combined 2019 spending from $35 million to $13 million.

NEWYORK (WCBS 880) – Newark started handing out water filters across the city as it deals with elevated lead levels in the water supply, but one advocacy group says that isn’t enough.
Erik Olson, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, says it took a while for Newark to even admit it had a problem with lead in its water.
Olson says lead levels in the city are significant.
“The federal EPA’s drinking water standard (…) sets an action level of 15 parts per billion.
But Newark agreed to hand out filtration devices to at-risk households.
But Olson says it’s been a “haphazard program.” He says some households didn’t get their filters.
“We’ve asked the court to force the city to really go forward with a bottled water program,” he said.
The NRDC also wants Newark to start fortifying its water treatment while the city works on the longer-term goal of replacing its pipes.
A city spokesman says the filter program is working and that the NRDC is cherry-picking incidents.
“A huge swath of the city continues to have these lead contamination problems,” he said.

KNOWLTON — Pam and Mitchell Rusweiler say you can tell when it’s spring cleaning at their house — there are toilets in the yard.
And cooking pasta in the Rusweiler household on Decatur Street requires several bottles of water, she said.
Well, our water has too much salt."
It’s all necessary because of sodium chloride — plain salt, the kind you shake on food, and public works trucks spread on highways.
In December, the committee approved agreements with the New Jersey DOT and Warren County to take responsibility for plowing and salting some of the non-interstate roads and feeder streets around Columbia.
We put up signs alerting drivers that they are in a reduced salt area."
Starrs said there has been no agreement reached with the bridge commission, which continues to do its own plowing and salting from its facility across the river in Pennsylvania.
The DEP tested 40 wells in 2015-16 and all showed above normal levels of sodium and chloride.
The cost of that option was put at about $8.5 million, and would require all homes in Columbia to become part of the system.
Portland, Pa., has its own water treatment plant just across the river from Columbia, and piping the water across the river using the existing pedestrian bridge is feasible.

Elevated levels of lead have been found in drinking water in Belton, prompting South Carolina’s public health regulators to require officials to take immediate corrective action.
The basics of Belton’s water problem Elevated levels of lead were found in five of 20 water samples taken between June 2018 and September 2018 in Belton, which buys its water from the Belton-Honea Path Water Authority.
Belton officials say the high lead levels are coming from older homes with lead pipes.
Belton does not further treat the water it receives from the Belton-Honea Path Water Authority, City Manager Alan Sims said.
Before elevated levels of lead were discovered last year, Belton’s water had typically been tested for lead every three years, Sims said.
The long-term fix for Belton’s water The Belton-Honea Path Water Authority is planning to use a phosphate-based additive called orthophosphate in its treatment processes to try to reduce the elevated levels of lead.
Elevated levels of lead are not coming from the treatment plant or the treated water itself but from old pipes found in older homes, according to the water authority.
Orthophosphate has never been used in the Belton-Honea Path Water Authority’s treatment processes because there has never been a problem before now, Ellenburg said.
Do not cook with or drink water from the hot water tap.
For more information on reducing lead exposure from water and the health effects of lead, visit EPA’s website at www.epa.gov/lead, call the Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 800-426-4791, or contact your health care provider.

In 2014, the town of Flint began using the Flint River as a public water source, resulting in unsafe levels of lead, bacteria and other contaminants in residents’ drinking water.
The study found that children born to Flint mothers exposed to unclean drinking water during pregnancy had lower birth weights on average than children born to mothers living in cities with clean water during the same period of time.
The effects were particularly pronounced in children born to mothers from a lower socioeconomic status.
Conducted in collaboration with colleagues from Tulane University and Wuhan University, the research was published through the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in January.
“There are very convincing studies showing that people with lower birth weight have poorer performance in school and lower labor market wages, and they die earlier.” Birth weight trends have even been linked to crime rates, Chen said, so looking at the birth weights of infants born in a particular region can help researchers predict the long-term effects of water pollutants on social and financial outcomes for the population of that region.
While lead is one of the main contaminants found in Flint’s drinking water, bacterial contamination of the water supply also poses a significant threat to residents of Flint and many other areas in the United States.
Bacteria is usually flushed out of drinking water with a cocktail of disinfectants added to water supply pipes.
In many regions experiencing clean water shortages, psychosocial interventions may also be necessary to reduce maternal stress during pregnancy, which is known to have adverse consequences for infants.
She and her colleagues had no way to determine which mothers had engaged in avoidance behaviors and which had not, meaning that some infants included in the sample were likely born to mothers who had avoided drinking from contaminated public water supplies.
If this is the case, she explained, the results of the study may underestimate the effects of a mother’s consumption of contaminated water on an infant in utero.

The City of Canyonville has issued a drinking water warning, advising residents to boil the water before use.
"A water sample taken (Monday) showed turbidity levels of 4.0 turbidity units," a press release by the city read.
"There is an increased chance that the water may contain disease-causing organisms."
The standard is 1.0 turbidity units.
Turbidity is a measure of cloudiness in water.
It has no health effects, but can interfere with growth of disease-causing organisms such as bacteria, viruses and parasites.
Residents are advised to boil the water before use, let it boil for one minute and let it cool before use.
Bottled water can also be used for drinking, making ice, washing dishes, brushing teeth or food preparation.
The City of Canyonville press release states, "We anticipate having the problem resolved on (Tuesday)."
General guidelines on ways to lessen the risk of infection by microbes are available from the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1800-426-4791 or the Oregon Department of Human Services Drinking Water Program at 971-673-0405.

Nestle has announced the immediate closure of a bottling plant in Phoenix, Arizona, US which only opened in 2016.
The company’s factory manager cited increased competition as the reason behind the decision, while the plant has previously attracted criticism for extraction of water from a notably dry, desert geography.
Nestle originally purchased the water used at the bottling plant from the city of Phoenix.
The company said February 11 that it will continue to ship water to metropolitan Phoenix from other sources.
For example, water recovery systems will help meet the factory’s needs, while solar panels will power its front office" and goes on to say "Careful water stewardship is the key to running a sustainable business, wherever Nestlé Waters North America operates.
We’re working closely with the city of Phoenix authorities to ensure that we’re a responsible water user, and that our operations have a positive impact…We expect to buy 35 million gallons of water each year from the city of Phoenix.
Elsewhere in the US, a permit allowing Nestle to boost the amount of groundwater it pumps in the state of Michigan was challenged by activists last year.
The Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) filed a petition in May 2018 to contest a Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) extraction permit in state court.
Nestle Has Alliance for Water Stewardship Certifications In October 2017, OOSKAnews reported a Nestle announcement that twenty factories of the water division of the Nestle Group would achieve Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) certification by 2020.
AWS is a global membership collaboration comprised of businesses, NGOs, public sector offices and sustainability stakeholders.