A tanker next to the Ilion Fire Station is available to provide potable water for village residents.
“The residual chlorine level was a little high,” said Lamica.
Another tanker arrived at about 6:15 p.m. “Our water department is testing the chlorine in the tank every day,” he said.
While much of the focus has been on the state Department of Health, which is supplying the tanks and some bottled water, managing the task of bringing the water to the village and monitoring the tank has been a community effort that has involved area businesses and local residents, according to the mayor.
In addition to bottled water from the state Health Department, the village received 10 pallets of water donated by Nirvana, Lamica said.
Some of the bottled water is being kept at the municipal building while the rest is at a storage facility.
The bottled water is reserved for residents who are unable to go to the tanker to obtain water.
“Even though the state stepped up to supply the water, it was up to us to go get it,” said Lamica.
As for the amount of water people are allowed to get from the tanker, “We’re just asking that they use some common sense,” according to the mayor.
The village had an aerator installed in one of the reservoirs to improve the oxygen levels.

HARARE – Some bottled water producers have rejected a report by the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) investigators that their water was unsafe for drinking, saying the State agency was making “false allegations”.
In the report, Ema said 11 out of 17 bottled water brands which they had tested contained high levels of heterotrophic plate counts (HPC).
The HPC, the report said, are above Standards Association of Zimbabwe (Saz) acceptable drinking water limit of agar plate count per millilitre of 100.
Dairibord Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (DZPL) — who are into manufacturing and marketing of liquid milk, food and beverage products and whose product range include Aqualite Mineral Water — said in a statement yesterday its bottled water was a Saz-certified mineral water “bottled under world class manufacturing conditions.” “The Saz certification is an endorsement on the safety of Dairibord Aqualite as Saz undertakes its own independent verification,” the Antony Mandiwanza-led behemoth said.
During processing, every batch is tested in order to provide extra assurance to our valued customers.
“We are therefore ready and willing to go through testing and verification with anyone who doubts our safety and quality claims on Dairiboard Aqualite.
As a mineral water, Dairibord Aqualite has the added advantage in that it contains essential minerals that contribute to the sustenance of good health.” Tanganda Tea company secretary Henry Nemaire said the company’s bottled Tinga mira water drawn from a spring situated in Chipinge had undergone various independent and government laboratory tests and came out clean.
It is a standard that promotes excellency in sustaining biodiversity and people and consumer livelihoods.
“It is a standard that promotes excellency in sustaining biodiversity and people and consumer livelihoods,” he said in a statement.
“In accordance with requirement of our Rainforest Alliance certification, the raw Tinga mira spring water is subject of annual tests and the most recent such laboratory examination of the raw Tinga mira spring water was carried out by Ema on April 9, 2018.

All of this is why Maynard’s family doesn’t drink the tap water.
Some county residents say they bathe their babies in bottled water to avoid exposing them to the tap water; others store jugs of water near the bathroom in case the tap runs dry in the middle of a shower.
The decades-long problems in Martin County illustrate just how complex the issues are.
"The treatment plant operators can’t control the quality of the water in the pipes if they cannot keep the pipes intact," Brion says.
The Martin County Water District, the private utility that manages the county’s water, reported 29 line breaks in 2017 and advised residents to boil their water in case of contamination.
Since the Martin County Water District is privately owned, it falls largely outside state jurisdiction: Aside from investigations, recommendations and fines, there’s little that state governing bodies can do.
"This isn’t just confined to Martin County.
We have dilapidated infrastructure all over this country," she says.
"The people of this county did not create this mess, but we’re the ones who are going to have to fix it."
Maynard is doing just that, by, among other things, running for local government.

LAHORE: A two-judge bench at the Supreme Court Lahore registry resumed hearing of a suo motu case against extraction of groundwater by bottled water companies.
Heading the bench, Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar directed a multinational mineral water company to present its five-year record for forensic audit; otherwise the sale of bottled water would be banned and the factory sealed.
Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan appeared on behalf of the company and stated that his client was being subjected to discrimination.
Dismissing his notion, the CJ said the counsel for a large company did not mean that court’s order should not be followed.
Company’s bottled water had proved substandard in all previous laboratory tests, remarked the judge.
“Why should the factory not be sealed till provision of the record to auditors,” asked the CJ, directing the testing laboratory to furnish the report about samples of the company’s bottled water at the earliest.
Christian family: Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar Sunday ordered a probe into the Gujjar Khan incident, in which the members of land mafia attacked a Christian family and torched their house and a car.
On Sept 21, at least 12 suspects tortured the family of Bashir Masih, a retired sanitary worker of the Punjab Health Department, and set fire to their possessions in a bid to grab the property.
Taking notice, the chief justice sought a detailed report from the Punjab government and Inspector General Punjab Police Arif Nawaz Khan.
The chief justice said that the provincial government will compensate the affected family after police submit its report on the incident.

LAHORE: A two-judge bench at the Supreme Court Lahore registry resumed hearing of a suo motu case against extraction of groundwater by bottled water companies.
Heading the bench, Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar directed a multinational mineral water company to present its five-year record for forensic audit; otherwise the sale of bottled water would be banned and the factory sealed.
Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan appeared on behalf of the company and stated that his client was being subjected to discrimination.
Dismissing his notion, the CJ said the counsel for a large company did not mean that court’s order should not be followed.
Company’s bottled water had proved substandard in all previous laboratory tests, remarked the judge.
“Why should the factory not be sealed till provision of the record to auditors,” asked the CJ, directing the testing laboratory to furnish the report about samples of the company’s bottled water at the earliest.
Christian family Meanwhile, Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar Sunday ordered a probe into the Gujjar Khan incident, in which the members of land mafia attacked a Christian family and torched their house and a car.
On Sept 21, at least 12 suspects tortured the family of Bashir Masih, a retired sanitary worker of the Punjab Health Department, and set fire to their possessions in a bid to grab the property.
Taking notice, the chief justice sought a detailed report from the Punjab government and Inspector General Punjab Police Arif Nawaz Khan.
The chief justice said that the provincial government will compensate the affected family after police submit its report on the incident.

But earlier this year, Henderson began getting unwanted attention when a failed test of the school’s water well revealed the unfortunate truth that the Lodi Unified campus’ water supply was tainted with an excessive level of a chemical deemed by California to be carcinogenic.
“They’re going to have to do something,” Robert McClellon of San Joaquin County’s Environmental Health Department said this week.
“At this time we are choosing to provide bottled water for drinking, and hand-wash stations for sanitation, as a precaution.” Another sign said bluntly: “Do Not Drink Tap Water Until Further Notice.” In addition to the 59-student school for seventh- and eighth-graders, the Henderson campus is home to Lodi Unified’s Child Welfare and Attendance Office and an independent study program whose participants are not required to come to the school campus.
McClellon shared this week one theory of why an acceptable test in February might have deteriorated into an unacceptable result three months later.
“If you look at the time of year, in February there’s not much agricultural pumping going on,” McClellon said.
Potentially, that could have been the reason.” The tainted water at Henderson School became more widely known after the California School Employees Association, one of the unions that represents school employees, announced earlier this month that it had filed a Williams Act complaint with Lodi Unified on Sept. 11.
Kyle Harvey, the labor relations representative for the CSEA, said he became aware of the water issue after a union member working at Henderson contacted him to say he had been told not to drink the water at the school site.
In a Sept. 11 letter to Lodi Unified, Harvey wrote that the district’s efforts to remediate the problem — serving the bottled water and setting up the cold-wash stations — were inadequate.
“We’ve been working on grants with the state Water Board for an interim solution,” Kahn said.
“If that works, we will be in a place to just allow people at the site to wash their hands in sinks,” Kahn said.

PANIC gripped the country’s retail sector yesterday, with some shops rejecting some bottled water brands deemed as contaminated.
But Dairibord Zimbabwe, bottlers of the Aqualite brand, came out guns blazing against the report, stating that their water was safe for consumption and saying their distillation process was up to standard.
"Aqualite is certified by Standards Association of Zimbabwe, who also carry out independent verification.
EMA has not engaged us as would have been expected for us to understand where the disparity in their tests is arising from," Marimo said.
We retain samples of our production for verification if the need arises."
THE price of bread may revert to $1 from $1.10 per loaf in the next two weeks as grain processors are engaging Government over procurement of wheat.
The shipment is due to arrive in the next 14 days," he said.
"Bread is currently at 50 percent supply and we are only able to supply mostly urban areas," Mr Musarara said.
He said grain millers needed $30 million in foreign currency each month for procurement of wheat, of which $7 million went towards bread.
Mr Musarara said the market for bread had dramatically increased in the last decade due to changes in dietary patterns of people.

PANIC gripped the country’s retail sector yesterday, with some shops rejecting some bottled water brands deemed as contaminated.
By Staff Reporter This follows laboratory tests conducted by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA), which concluded that some bottled water sold on the market were contaminated and unsuitable for human consumption.
But Dairibord Zimbabwe, bottlers of the Aqualite brand, came out guns blazing against the report, stating that their water was safe for consumption and saying their distillation process was up to standard.
Further, we carry out tests on every batch to provide extra assurance to our customers,” Marimo said.
She also said the bottled water was certified by the Standard Association of Zimbabwe, a State organ responsible for quality assurance of all products originating in Zimbabwe.
“Aqualite is certified by Standards Association of Zimbabwe, who also carry out independent verification.
EMA has not engaged us as would have been expected for us to understand where the disparity in their tests is arising from,” Marimo said.
“We are available and willing to go through testing and verification with them.
Other distillers mentioned in the report were not immediately available for comment.
NewsDay Weekender is, however, reliably informed that the controversial report has caused panic within the market, with some retailers informing water bottlers to recall their products.

Meijer, along with Central Michigan University and Bob Maxey Ford partnered to deliver 200,000 bottles of water to the Detroit Public Schools Community District, whose buildings are affected by high levels of metal in the water, and has turned off drinking fountains as a result.
The water is meant to help bridge the gap between now and when water filtering will begin in the district.
The thinking is that the 200,000 bottles will last about a month.
“Meijer was built on a fundamental philosophy of supporting the communities we serve, and we are pleased to partner with CMU and Bob Maxey Ford to help ensure these student athletes have enough water to drink during practice and games,” said Adrian Lewis, Meijer East Detroit Market Director.
Six trucks from the Meijer fleet deployed today to deliver the water to schools within the district.
“CMU is proud to help sponsor water to Detroit Public Schools Community District, along with Meijer and Bob Maxey,” said Tyrone Jordan, CMU’s Executive Assistant to the President for Metro Detroit Outreach.
“We have been committed to the education of DPSCD students for many years and we plan to continue our efforts in helping students receive a quality education.” The water in more than half of the schools in the district has been tainted by copper and lead.
“I’m glad that I was able to join with CMU and Meijer to help the students in the city of Detroit,” said Bob Maxey, President of Bob Maxey Ford and Bob Maxey Lincoln.
“We’ve been based in the City of Detroit for over 45 years and consider it our home.
We always look forward to helping people in the city, especially Detroit’s students.” DPSCD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – Defendant Nestle Waters North America Inc. filed a motion to dismiss an amended complaint on July 30 regarding a lawsuit over its Poland Spring brand of spring water over allegations the water does not meet the “spring water” determinations as defined by the Federal Drug Administration.
“This court should dismiss this action in deference to the primary jurisdiction of the FDA to exercise its expertise and authority in interpreting and applying the FDA Identity Standard and determining whether Poland Spring meets the FDA’s standard,” stated the motion to dismiss, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.
According to the defendant, if the court were to accept the plaintiffs’ challenge, “it would endanger the entire bottled water regulatory process…state regulators would be stripped of all regulatory authority if licensing could be vitiated and voided by private lawsuits in federal court.” The lawsuit was filed by plaintiffs Mark J. Patane and others who are described as residents of “nine Northeastern states.” The suit was dismissed without prejudice in May.
According to the motion to dismiss, the plaintiffs’ amended complaint “fails to state any viable claims as a matter of law."
“Returning to the same empty well, plaintiffs allege in their amended complaint the very same claims that were pled in their initial complaint and were dismissed as preempted by federal law,” Nestle stated.
According the filing, each count of the amended complaint was “premised on the allegation that Poland Spring is falsely labeled as ‘spring water’ because it does not comply with FDA Identity Standard."
The plaintiffs, according to the filing, questioned the competency and the integrity of the state regulatory agencies, Maine’s in particular, in their original suit and allegedly questioned compliance determinations that authorized the sale of this brand of water.
In turn, the plaintiffs filed state-law claims and sought to “permanently enjoin and declare unlawful the very conduct authorized by state regulators.” U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut case number 17-cv-01381 Sign-up Next time we write about any of these organizations, we’ll email you a link to the story.
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