SALEM, Ore. – A “don’t drink” water advisory is back in effect for young children, pregnant or nursing mothers, or other vulnerable groups after low levels of cyanotoxins were detected in the water supply.
The advisory applies to City of Salem, City of Turner, Suburban East Salem Water District, and Orchard Heights Water Association.
City officials issued a similar advisory last Tuesday (May 29) days after a water sample came back positive for low levels of cyanotoxins that exceeded the EPA’s 10-day exposure duration for “vulnerable populations."
Authorities say that boiling the water doesn’t remove the toxins and can actually increase the toxin levels.
Most filters do not remove the toxins either.
The source of the city’s water is Detroit Reservoir.
According to the city, water samples taken on May 23 and 25 came back with levels of cyanotoxins that that are above the EPA’s Cyanotoxins National Drinking Water Health Advisories.
Here’s a full list of the Keizer businesses offering water fills: (Business) BFit Gyms 5045 River Road-We can have people come in and fill up water bottles if they need.
We don’t have a faucet or anything for hoses we can offer but if people need to come get cold filtered water our doors are open (Business) The Human Bean Keizer 5007 River Road N (Business) Skyline Ford and Skyline’s Keizer Ford 3555 River Road N (Business) Odd Moe’s Pizza Keizer – Open 11am-10pm today & tomorrow and 11am-11pm Friday (Business) Tony’s Kingdom of Comics and Collectibles 3856 River Rd, Keizer – inside faucet/sink (Business) Keiser Heidi-Integrity Medical Evaluations Inc. 5845 Shoreline Lane N – Hose outside/faucets inside 8am – 5 pm (Business)Subway at 5462 River Road N – 8am-10pm every day (Business)Willamette Valley Bank NMLS# 713109 5140 River Road N – 9am-6pm (Business)D & J Dog Grooming 689 Chemawa Rd NE – Will fill jugs in shop or can hook up a hose to the outside spigot.
(Business) Willamette Valley Appliance -Keizer (Business) Salem-Keizer Volcanoes (Business) KeyBank (Business) Delaney Madison Grill, Inland Shores (Business) CASA of Marion County Oregon – hose out by front door.

Three local environmental advocacy groups – the Association of Synergy of Macau, Green Future and Macau Less Plastic Lifestyle – co-launched a map Monday that shows the locations of water fountains around the city, with the aim of encouraging the public to get their potable water from bubblers instead of buying bottled water.
Referring to data released by the Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) in 2015, Un said that Macau produced about 17 tonnes of used disposable plastic bottles every day, pointing out that as an average-sized plastic bottle weighs 25 grammes, every day 680,000 plastic bottles were thrown away in that year, a number which exceeded the city’s population.
Macau’s population stood at 656,700 at the end of March.
Many casinos provide free bottled water, mostly in very small bottles.
Gamblers are often seen carrying more than one of the free mini-bottles so that they can drink them throughout the day before just throwing them away.
, When asked by The Macau Post Daily about the proportion of freebies among all disposable plastic bottles, Association of Synergy of Macau Director Ron Lam U Ton said that they did not have a figure due to a lack of research.However Lam added he believes that empty bottles from casinos make up a large slice of the city´s plastic waste.
Lam noted that people take the free bottled water from casinos not because they like bottled water, but simply because they are thirsty.
He said that in his view visitors would still drink water if the casinos provided drinking fountains instead of free bottled water, adding that he was looking forward to casinos installing drinking fountains so that they could include them in the next edition of their map.
He urged the government to limit the selling of water in small plastic bottles to help reduce Macau’s plastic waste.
The map provides information on 104 places such as universities, health centres, libraries, museums and service centres, displaying the address and opening hours of each of them, and whether cold, warm or hot water is provided.

Residents are urged to boil tap water before cooking, drinking, preparing foods, mixing baby formula, washing vegetables and fruit, making ice, brushing teeth and washing dishes.
Borough administrator Ralph Blakeslee said contractors began work on the project Monday morning, but he could not state an estimated time of completion.
Blakeslee added he would try to post updates on the borough Facebook page when available.
However, there is the potential threat to the quality of water being provided to you during construction.
The borough advised residents of the advisory via social media posts on Friday morning, and by Nixle alert and its public alert system on Sunday.
Police also issued an alert on Sunday.
"We did that on Sunday because we figured that was the time that people would most likely be home," Blakeslee said.
Blakeslee said borough officials advised the school district and school officials said they were prepared to cope with the advisory.
Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking; preparing foods; mixing baby formula, food, juices or drinks; washing vegetables and fruit; cooking; making ice; brushing teeth; and washing dishes until further notice.
Keep boiled water in the refrigerator for drinking.

CRESTON, Iowa-This weekend residents in seven southern Iowa counties have been altering their normal routines, due to a lack of drinkable water.
On Friday Southern Iowa Rural Water Association announced that it’s customers in Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Madison, Ringgold, Taylor, and Union Counties would need to boil water, before drinking.
“We’re just kind of waiting for official word,” said Diagonal Mayor Lowell Johnson.
At noon Sunday there was a long line of people waiting to pickup some bottled water at the Food Pantry.
Most of the Faraway donation of water in Creston was picked up on Saturday.
Organizer Mark O’Riley was worried the word wouldn’t get out about the water to be given to the public.
“Now we ‘ve got rid of it we need more,” said O’Riley.
Restaurants are also dealing with a lack of water.
Some employees were not needed this weekend, due to no salad bar.
The restaurant is buying bottled water and paper plates, and utensils.

Jun 3, 2018-The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTQC) has sealed six bottled water processing plants after they were found selling contaminated water.
“We took action against these companies as the water refilling process in them was open to contamination which poses risk to consumers’ health,” DFTQC’s Spokesperson Purna Chandra Wasti said.
The department has sealed processing plants of Sagarmatha Food and Beverage in Matatirtha and Mata Saraswati Khanepani in Thali of Kageswori Manohara Municipality-5.
According to Wasti, most of these plants were found implementing manual bottle filling system, lacking closed chamber to fill the water jars, having leakages in their pipeline system and lacking carbon filter for water purification.
Similarly, the department has asked Spring Water in Matatirtha, Badikhel Khanepani Udyog in Godavari and Quality Khanepani in Jorpati to run their business as per the department’s guideline.
These companies have failed to renew their operating licence and were found to be filling water in the scrubbed and soiled jars.
Out of 11 bottled water plants that the department inspected last week, nine were found to be of substandard quality as they failed to meet the guidelines prescribed by the department.
The department, since last two months, has enforced a separate directive for processed drinking water production business.
Timely renewal of the operating licence, maintaining hygiene in the external environment at the water processing plants, having adequate infrastructure such as separate water treatment plant, storage facility and hygiene maintained by the factory workers, management of well-equipped laboratory, proper labelling and maintaining records of standard operating procedures and monitoring process are among the obligations that bottled water companies need to fulfill to carry out their businesses.
In the first 10 months of this fiscal year, the department had filed cases against 135 edibles firms on charge of selling substandard food items.

Statesman-Journal A Keizer woman complained to officials Friday after she and her 8-month-old son unintentionally drank tap water at a Salem sushi restaurant.
But under the advisory, health officials have warned pregnant women, nursing mothers and children under the age of 6 to not drink or cook with tap water.
After getting up to leave, she noticed other customers were drinking bottled water.
She asked the waitress whether she’d been given bottled water.
The waitress replied that no, customers were given tap water unless they request bottled water.
Horrified, Parr realized she’d let her baby drink contaminated water.
Officials said the city does not provide any public health enforcement involving restaurants.
Instead complaints are directed to the Marion County Health Department and Oregon Health Authority.
Restaurants are not required to take specific precautions, but experts are available to advise restaurant owners on how best serve uncontaminated water.
More: Salem water crisis: What if you drink the tap water during the advisory?

Because of nitrate levels, the school has been using bottled water since January of this year.
Jerry Brown has asked the Legislature to enact a statewide tax on drinking water to fix wells and treatment systems in distressed communities.
Residents and businesses would pay a tax on their monthly water bills while agriculture would contribute through taxes on fertilizer purchases and fees paid by dairy farmers and feedlot operators.
In the Valley, 185,000 residents are served by water systems deemed out of compliance by the state water board.
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Water problems, however, aren’t limited to the San Joaquin Valley.
The school plans on installing a new well and treatment system, funded with state grants, by the end of summer.
Since 2014, it also has disbursed $43 million in Proposition 1 water-bond funds for community water tanks, filtration systems and other upgrades.
The Association of California Water Agencies, which represents the big urban suppliers, is trying to kill the bill.
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On OfferUp.com, a website where people can buy and sell items, residents have posted bottled water and fresh water in Salem and the surrounding areas.
Some of the packs of bottled water have already sold.
Bottled water is in high demand after the city of Salem said children, infants, pregnant mothers, those with compromised immune systems, other vulnerable people and pets should not drink the tap water Tuesday.
Recent tests found low levels of cyanotoxins in the water.
The advisory comes just days after the Oregon Health Authority detected toxic blue-green algae in Detroit Lake.
Detroit Reservoir is the city’s source of water.
After the water advisory was issued Tuesday, bottled water sold quickly at local stores.
"The water is gone.
The shelves were pretty empty.
They’ve got sparkling water left and some flavored water," said Sariah Fredrickson, who went to purchase water for her 2-year-old daughter.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The National Guard will hand out free water to residents who can’t drink tap water contaminated by an algae bloom in the Salem, Oregon, area, and state law enforcement authorities are looking into claims of price gouging after officials extended an emergency drinking water advisory.
Gov.
Kate Brown’s office said Thursday the water will be distributed to people at 10 locations in the state’s capital and Stayton because of toxins created by a bloom at Detroit Lake, a municipal reservoir.
Officials had earlier warned young children and people with compromised immune systems against drinking tap water in the area.
"We’re not going to speculate as to whether it’s going to get better or get worse."
Officials have received more than a dozen complaints so far and expect more as consumers become aware they can report the incidents.
Alan Torga, of Salem, was one person who complained after he said employees at a supermarket asked his mother for $25 for a case of 36 bottles of water.
"She picked up on it and called me," Torga said, adding that he told his mother not to pay the price.
City and state health officials will wait for two days’ test results to fall within safe limits before lifting the advisory, said Kenny Larson, a spokesman for the city of Salem.
——— This story has been updated to reflect a new advisory lift date based on information from another water official.

SALEM, Ore. – The State Attorney General is warning people of Oregon’s price gouging law as Salem-area residents are faced with a “don’t drink” tap water advisory for young children, pregnant or nursing mothers, pets, and other vulnerable groups.
Many grocery stores quickly sold out of bottled water, and rushed to resupply their shelves after Tuesday’s announcement.
The shortage meant that some residents went to great lengths to find bottled water – be it driving out of the city or paying more for the product.
KATU News has received reports of people selling bottled water for as much as $47 for a pack.
“Our state’s price gouging law protects people impacted by an emergency from illegal price gouging on food, shelter, bottled water, fuel and other items necessary for the health, safety and welfare of Oregonians,” said Oregon Attorney General Rosenblum.
The AG’s office described price gouging as a dramatic price increase after an “abnormal disruption of the market,” similar to the advisory.
On Thursday, Oregon Governor Kate brown issued a state of emergency to free up state resources and bring clean water stations to the region.
Under state law, retailers are prohibited from increasing prices 15 percent or more above what they charged before a state of emergency.
The Attorney General is asking Oregonians who has information on price gouging to file a complaint online or call their hotline at 1-877-877-9392.
The City of Salem is holding a press conference at 2:30 p.m. to discuss where the free, clean water stations will be set up in the Salem and Stayton areas.