MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ohio (WDTN) – Maps showing contrasting boil advisory coverage is causing some confusion for residents in the county.
To figure out which advisory map you should use, you first need to know if you get your water through the Dayton Water Department, or through Montgomery County water services.
If you get your water through Montgomery County Water Services, click here for a map showing current boil advisory coverage or click here to see a list of addresses impacted.
If you are a Dayton Water Department customer, use this interactive map to see if the boil advisory applies to you: The following cities have their own water systems and were never affected by the boil advisory: Oakwood, Huber Heights, Vandalia, Englewood, Miamisburg, Union, and West Carrollton.
In a post to Twitter Thursday, Montgomery County reported Kettering, Centerville, Washington Township, Miami Township and Moraine were also clear of the water issues.
Officials with Montgomery County water services say that under the boil advisory, water is safe for consumption after customers have allowed their water lines to flush and/or run for a minimum of three minutes and then boil for at least one minute prior to consumption.
This should dissipate over the next few days.
They are expected to announce details at 10 a.m. on Friday.
City and County officials are working to create one map that will apply to all customers.
The City of Dayton has established three distribution sites at its recreation centers for customers to pick up Red-B-Gone laundry additive to protect laundry from discolored water.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed his first pieces of legislation into law on Wednesday, and he chose to sign them at a school where the water contains a carcinogen and kids can’t even use the drinking fountains.
Newsom opened his visit in a history classroom, introducing the bills to a room full of students at Riverview Elementary School in the Fresno County City of Parlier.
“Yes,” they shouted, raising their hands excitedly.
The laws pull $131 million out of the general fund for several projects, including emergency preparedness, as well as bottled water and other urgent needs for communities with unsafe drinking water.
“I cannot sleep well, and I know that’s a rote cliché thing,” he said, “but honestly, I don’t deserve to be your governor if I can’t figure out a way to get that done.” Newsom also heard from school administrators.
Head secretary Nelia Villasenor said parents come by all the time to drop off essentials their kids forgot: Lunchboxes, gym clothes, and most importantly, bottles of clean water.
“I’m feeling optimistic about it,” she said of his visit.
He’s “actually getting things done right now and not waiting till the end of the fiscal year.
Put another way, he said, by following through with this part of the project, he’s ensuring the Valley keeps its fair share of federal funding.
“That money will never come back to the Valley.

A city water crisis has been averted with the repair of a major water leak this morning.
The cause was found to be a $50 rubber ring (seal) that needed to be replaced.
This was expected to be lifted at around 3pm today.
A council spokeswoman told The Herald this morning that contractors worked through the night to fix the repair, with a small patch being welded in place this morning.
“Supply from the Waingake treatment plant will return to normal by 3pm this afternoon but it will take several days for the reservoirs to replenish to a level that ensures ongoing supply,” she said.
The council yesterday said the city had only 24 hours of water left.
“I think the council does a great job communicating when there’s issues and it is very helpful for other providers in the community to step in and provide alternative supplies when needed.
Water restrictions remained in place at Cedenco this morning.
The augmentation plant was started last night to provide back-up for the city’s water supply but technical issues with the pump meant that could not get flowing either.
However, this morning those had also been fixed and the plant will be running over the weekend.

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Hospitals in the area took precautions Wednesday night while crews worked to determine how much their water was affected by the water outage.
“As you can imagine, if you think about water disruption in a household, at a hospital it can be very different because we have tests, procedures, and other types of instruments that depend on water to be able to operate effectively.
Patient safety was paramount,” he says.
“We never wanted to cause any disruption to patient care.
We wanted to continue to provide that safe patient environment,” he said.
“Practicing for these types of events allows us to respond quickly and proactively and to follow the right measures so we don’t disrupt patient care.
Uhl goes on to say that thanks to quick reaction from hospital staff and officials, no disruptions to patient care were reported.
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By Ben Burstein Capital News Service RICHMOND — Over 5,000 child care facilities around the state must start testing their drinking water for lead or use bottled water under a bill approved by the Virginia Senate.
SB 1622, introduced by Sen. Jeremy McPike, D-Prince William, would require licensed child care facilities and other programs that serve preschoolers to implement a plan to test their potable water to ensure lead levels do not exceed 15 parts per billion.
The high priority sources of lead come from drinking fountains and various sinks and faucets, according to the bill.
Older infrastructure has a higher risk of lead contamination due to lead pipes that were used until the 1980s.
Child care centers are required to notify parents of children if they decide not to perform testing.
The Virginia Department of Health estimated that each facility has three to 15 water sources to test.
High levels of lead in blood or prolonged exposure can affect the nervous system and cause developmental problems and learning disabilities, according to the VDH.
State outreach has cranked up in recent years to help raise awareness about lead in drinking water.
The VDH created the “3Ts for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water in Schools and Child Care Facilities” to guide school officials to “train, test, and take action” if lead is detected in the water.
Maribeth Brewster, director of the office of communications for VDH, declined to provide comment on the story, citing the ongoing legislative process.

Student Senate’s Sustainability committee has launched a campaign based around Sinky, a talking cartoon sink, to encourage students to try out alternatives to drinking water out of plastic bottles.
Senior Rachel Watson initially made up the character as well as the slogan “Drink from the Sink” as a joke in a sustainability committee meeting last school year.
While Sinky was conceived as a joke, Edelmuth explained the serious issue behind the campaign of getting students to turn away from creating additional waste via single-use plastic bottles.
“The development of plastic is just not really great for the environment and when there are so many other alternatives like using reusable water bottles.” While the need for Knox to use less plastic water bottles in locations like the Grab-N-Go has been discussed by the sustainability committee, Director of Sustainability Debbie Steinberg explained that it was necessary to start with encouraging changes in behavior.
“Before we can stop people from buying bottled water, we need to teach them that there’s an alternative,” Steinberg said.
“Some of the countries they come from cannot drink from the sink,” Edelmuth said.
“I have a friend who in particular once he came here, I was filling my cup from the bathroom sink and drinking it and he tried to whack it out of my hand.” Edelmuth and Steinberg both affirmed that the water quality of the school’s sinks has been tested and assured to be safe.
“They like the plastic water bottle taste, which is actually caused by a chemical they intentionally put in plastic water bottles,” Edelmuth said.
While the Sinky campaign has been of zero financial cost, the Sustainability Committee is considering future projects such as attempting to distribute reusable water bottles out to the incoming freshman.
While this idea is just in the early stages of consideration, the committee is currently looking for potential companies to purchase the reusable bottles from.

PHOENIX – After investing tens of millions of dollars, Nestle has shut down the controversial water bottling plant it opened in Phoenix less than a year ago.
In an emailed statement, Phoenix factory manager Hugues Larente on Monday cited competitive reasons for the facility’s demise.
“Bottled water is a highly competitive category.
In response to the competitive situation, we have been evolving our operations to meet our future needs and to position the company for long-term success,” the statement said.
“As another step toward that goal, we have made the decision to cease production at our Phoenix factory, effective immediately.” The plant opened in July 2018 and ceased production Friday.
Nestle announced in 2016 it would spend $35 million to turn a warehouse near 43rd Avenue and Buckeye Road into a water bottling plant.
“Establishing a Phoenix facility reduces transportation miles for distribution from facilities in other parts of the western region and allows for faster, localized and more efficient service to our customers and consumers,” Nestle said in a press release at the time.
The water came from the city of Phoenix and was purchased at the standard rate to be treated, bottled and resold.
Environmentalists argued against tapping into the desert city’s water supply and waged a petition campaign to stop it.
The company said it would hire 40-50 people to staff the facility, but Larente’s statement said the factory had 15 workers who were being laid off and given separation packages.

Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan (XU) will ban the entry, sale, and use of single-use plastic water bottles in its campus as it vows to enhance its efforts in water conservation.
XU president Fr.
Roberto Yap issued a university memorandum released Wednesday, February 13, stating that all of its campuses will be asked to use reusable water containers for drinking.
During the transition, Yap said the XU community can still consume existing supplies of single-use plastic water bottles and ensure that water dispensers and drinking water fountains are available in all campuses.
Yap said he has asked the university’s Social Development Cluster to conduct stakeholder consultations in all campuses to explain and discuss the proposed advocacy as well as to listen to concerns.
The university’s move comes after the city government also implemented the regulation of single plastics here.
The City Local Environment and Natural Resources (Clenro) lauded the university for its commitment to protect the environment.
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In the shadow of some of America’s most controversial coal mines, where companies use huge amounts of explosives to blow the tops off mountains, isolated communities say their water has been poisoned.
The taps in her house have been worn down, her washing machine frequently stops working, and her bathroom and kitchen have been stained a deep, bloody orange by the pollutants – iron, sulphur, even arsenic – that have seeped into her home’s water supply.
"This is what we have to live with," Casey says.
"I’ve been here all my life, but when the surface [coal] mine came in that’s when the water started changing," says Jack, who, despite being a miner himself, believes the industry is accountable for his family’s water problems.
This process is a type of surface mining known as mountaintop removal, and has drawn the ire not only of nearby residents but environmental groups who say it devastates the landscape and pollutes the waterways.
‘Don’t take away our healthcare’ says Trump country "When you dump a lot of overburden into the valley, and start covering up streams, you have water sources that end up travelling through the [waste] material,’ says Professor Michael McCawley, an environmental engineer who has spent time researching the health impacts of mountaintop removal.
Jason now cooks with bottled water, but he has been collecting water from a nearby stream and treating it with swimming pool chemicals to supply his house.
"We view ourselves as pretty good neighbours and if somebody has an issue then we would address it," said the spokesman for CM Energy, which took over the mine in 2017.
When presented with the complaints of nearby residents, the spokesman declined to take responsibility and said the water contamination could have been caused by a number of different issues.
"If you don’t work in the coal mines you either flip burgers or you have to move out of state and do something else."

Cape Town – Makhanda (Grahamstown) is in serious trouble in terms of its water resources, according to humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers.
Gift of the Givers says Settlers Dam, which supplies Makhanda, is at 13%.
Waainek Water Treatment Works, which receives water from the smaller Howiesons Poort Dam, had a problem with its pumping capacity due to electrical failure recently and was out of service for a few days.
“However, with rapidly dropping water levels in HP Dam, the Waainek Water Works will essentially shut down.
It supplies the west of the town with eight megalitres per day.
"The only feasible option is the James Kleynhans Water Works, which is also currently compromised.
Dr Gideon Groenewald, Gift of the Givers’ specialist hydrologist and geologist, will engage the municipality to ascertain what sustainable alternatives can be found in the immediate to medium term as work continues to double the capacity of the James Kleynhans Water Works to 20 megalitres by 2020.
Currently, it provides 10 megalitres per day.
“Gift of the Givers will assist as best it can.
Intervention in the drought through boreholes, bottled water, animal fodder and food parcels for retrenched farmworkers has already cost us R160 million,” Sooliman said.