SARTELL — Residents of Sartell Mobile Home Park were notified their water may be contaminated with E.coli bacteria Wednesday night.
That is, if they had water at all.
It urged residents to boil all water first before drinking it.
Tuesday afternoon the home was moved to access the burst line.
However, even when the water is restored the residents will need the state health department to test it to confirm it’s safe to drink, especially with the latest warning of bacteria.
Kim Larsen, district engineer for the Minnesota Department of Health, had not been made aware of the water issue at the park until receiving a call for interview from the Times Wednesday morning.
The inspection found "the current shelter is moldy and it is our understanding that the City of Sartell no longer approves of the plan to shelter."
Inspectors posed action to the park to "provide a flow test" to ensure the system can supply the required minimum of 150 gallons of water a day to each home.
For the water issue this was Aug. 31, 2017; The storm shelter was to be fixed by Dec. 31, 2017.
But now with bacteria and E.coli on the line, residents of Sartell Mobile Home Park should wait until tests come back showing water is clean and drinkable.

The source of the contaminants comes from the chemicals used for firefighting, commonly known as PFOS and PFOA.
The NAS Command has referred all inquiries to the Department of Defense, but after our reports, it has now issued a statement to ensure that the base community is safe and the contaminated wells are not connected to the drinking water supply.
Naval Air Station Jacksonville Statement: You may have seen recent media reports regarding testing for perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in groundwater at DoD installations.
With that in mind, here are the facts about the drinking water aboard NAS Jacksonville: The drinking water at NAS Jacksonville comes from the Floridian Aquifer – a limestone formation deep underground.
PFCs such as perfluorooctanesulfonate acid (PFOS) and perflouroctanoic acid (PFOA) are on the list of contaminants to sample and test.
PFOS and PFOA are part of a class of man-made chemicals used in many industrial and consumer products.
Drinking water at NAS Jacksonville is routinely tested in compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act.
All results for the NAS Jacksonville drinking water system were non-detect for these PFCs at detection limits of 0.02 ug/l and 0.04 ug/l respectively.
The information published in the DoD report that the Military Times article references that PFC compounds that were found or detected in shallow groundwater monitoring wells at NAS Jacksonville.
Again, the safety of our service members, employees, families and community is our top priority, and we are committed to ensuring safe drinking water.

FEARS have been raised about the possibility of raw sewage contaminating the River Faughan following flooding from a sewer on farmland in the Ardmore area of Derry.
“It affects my work, I have the fields to keep to a standard by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and the cattle will have to be removed from the field which will leave me having to source food from somewhere else.
“I’ve been left in limbo and have to figure something out,” he added.
“We need to be very mindful that it is in very, very close proximity to the River Faughan where we have anglers fishing and I would have a worry about that.
“And remedial work that has been done wasn’t done correctly as there are porous pipes that sewage shouldn’t be allowed to run through.” Alderman Devenney said concerns were raised about raw sewage running into the Faughan and answers need to be provided as to how the sewage flood occurred and what has to be done to prevent a recurrence.
In response a spokesperson from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs(DAERA) said: “A report of water pollution was passed to NIEA Water Quality Inspectors by Derry & Strabane District Council on 19th June 2018.
“The investigation found that a sewer was discharging via a manhole into a field but there was no discharge of polluting material to the Faughan River or any other waterway.” NI Water confirmed that it has been liaising with ‘a customer in relation to out of sewer flooding in a field on farmland in Ardmore’.
The spokesperson commented: “This flooding was a direct result of two severe blockages in the sewer line, caused by inappropriate items being flushed down the sewer and fat, oil and grease being disposed of down the sink.
“This is an extreme example of how the disposal of these items, primarily sanitary items and baby wipes, can impact on others.
“We have carried out a clean-up of the area, but this is having a limited impact due to the sheer size of the area affected and how wet the land currently is.

The National Federation of Group Water Schemes (NFGWS) has appealed to its members to use water wisely with a ‘very real danger that the situation will deteriorate’ due to the current heatwave.
"As the exceptionally high water demand currently being experienced has potential implications for human health, the NFGWS is urging group water scheme members to use water wisely and to avoid all unnecessary use.
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"With emerging evidence of sources being under stress in the GWS sector, there is a very real danger that the situation will deteriorate in the coming days as high temperatures and lack of rainfall will inevitably put pressure on lake reservoirs and on spring sources in particular.
"Apart from having less water available, the increase of at least 50/% in water demand currently being experienced in the sector is putting pressure on treatment systems also.
These systems have a design capacity and where this is exceeded treatment systems (and especially filtration) cannot operate as effectively.
This increases the risk of contaminants entering the drinking water supply.
"For spring supplies, as the aquifer is depleted, raw water quality deteriorates and this too puts pressure on treatment plants.
While water leaks are lower on group schemes that those on Irish Water supplies the usage is much higer.
NFGWS representative Brian McDonald said wise usage is critical.

And as reported by The Daily Courier on April 18, 2018, the City of Prescott is undertaking a multiyear investigation of Watson Lake water quality and options to improve the situation.
These and other water quality problems result from past events, and our options are limited.
Household wastewater is recharged into the aquifer.
Visit the City of Prescott website www.prescott-az.gov/documents/ which contains much information on proper handling of our waste stream.
3 – Participate in your community’s household hazardous waste (HHW) collection program.
Although a small fraction of the total waste stream, hazardous waste is extremely important.
I would add that Watson Lake is the crown jewel of the Granite Dells.
How many pictures of the Dells have you seen without Watson Lake?
Future generations may well thank us for their water supplies, even if those supplies include our wastewater.
On Aug. 4, the Citizens Water Advocacy Group (CWAG) will host a Legislative District 1 water issues candidate forum.

As of Tuesday, the people of Flint, Mich., have gone 1,524 days without a clean and stable water system.
In the four years since the water crisis began, there is a segment of the population that has been almost completely overlooked in all the talks about bottled water, filters and the effects of lead poisoning: the people housed in the city’s jail at the height of the crisis.
The Associated Press reports that former inmates of the Flint jail have filed a lawsuit alleging that Genesee County, Mich., officials violated their rights during the water crisis by withholding clean water, rationing bottled water and at times forcing inmates to buy clean water.
The suit also alleges that officials rejected deliveries of water made by relatives.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court Monday on behalf of more than 90 former prisoners.
According to the Detroit Free Press, it alleges that the inmates were forced to drink tap water even after officials knew that the water was contaminated with lead.
The suit names Genesee County, county Sheriff Robert Pickell and Capt.
Jason Gould—who is identified as the jail administrator at the time of the water contamination—as defendants in the case and alleges that the inmates “were completely at the mercy” of the sheriff and jail officials, unable to install filters on jail water taps or drink bottled water, and unable to “travel to an area and/or municipality which had uncontaminated water.”

KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday took an exception to contamination of water in the Manchar Lake and observed that departments of the Sindh province wanted people to keep dying as no progress had been made to remove contamination from the lake.
Hearing a suo moto case with regard to contamination of water in the Manchar Lake due to effluent from the Right Bank Outfall Drain, the SC’s two-member bench, headed by Justice Gulzar Ahmed, inquired the secretary irrigation as what efforts were made to reduce the contamination in the Manchar Lake.
The court observed that the provincial government was compelling people to consume contaminated water though billions of rupees had been spent on projects aimed to reduce the contamination in the lake.
The court observed that people were dying due to contamination of water in the Manchar Lake but no progress had been made so far.
The court observed Turkey had managed to clean its sea from pollution but no sincere efforts were seen to remove the marine pollution by officials.
The court directed secretary irrigation to submit details with regard to utilization of funds for reducing the contamination in the Manchar Lake and when the contamination issue would be overcome.
The Supreme Court has directed secretary irrigation and others to submit details as what efforts had been made to store the water in the province.
Hearing a petition for the construction of Dadu Dam, the court directed the provincial government to submit details about the construction of dams in the province.
Petitioner’s counsel Rasheed A Razvi submitted that the provincial government had decided to construct a dam in Dadu 20 years ago but no progress had been made yet.
The court observed that where the rain water would be stored in monsoon seasons and directed the provincial government to submit details with regard to construction of dams in the province within two weeks.

The goal has been to find clean water, not clean the dirty water.
He said he’s been watching scientific and political discussions around the contaminants, but that they don’t directly affect the water coming out of taps in Airway Heights.
“We like to keep our finger on the pulse of knowing (new federal thresholds for contaminants),” he said, “but our approach to this has always been to eliminate all of the contamination from the water supply.” The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry report says potential health problems associated with the group of chemicals known as perfluoroalkyls, or PFAS, are greater than previously believed, and can have a negative effect at much lower concentrations than current federal thresholds.
It says that exposure to PFAS is associated with cancer, liver damage, reduced fertility, asthma and other problems.
It also describes negative effects at very low doses, and indicates that dangers for pregnant women and children are particularly acute.
For a report with truly enormous financial and health implications it didn’t produce much splash.
We cannot seem to get ATSDR to realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be.” Yes, imagine the EPA’s extreme pain.
The Department of Defense says that water supplies around 126 bases have the chemicals above EPA standard, and 36 bases have contamination on-site.
That report shows that testing around Fairchild revealed PFAS and other contaminants in the Airway Heights municipal water system and 43 private wells, some at levels many times higher than the federal threshold.
It does not list Fairchild as a base whose water supply is affected.

The water supply in Hammanskraal could be contaminated with cholera, the Tshwane metro has warned.
In a statement on Wednesday, the metro warned residents against drinking tap water until further notice pending testing, spokesperson Selby Bokaba said.
ALSO READ: City denies Hammanskraal water contamination “Urgent tests are being conducted to determine if the water is contaminated with cholera.” “We urge residents not to drink the water to avoid the possibility of getting sick.” Bokaba said water tankers would supply water to the affected areas.
ALSO READ: Dirty water in Hammanskraal – again He said the following areas were affected: – Dilopye – New Eersterust – Temba – Babelegi Industries – Marokolong – Ramotse – Majaneng – Mandela Village – Sekampaneng – Hammanskraal Bokaba said test results would be made public as soon as they became available.
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Shimla and Bengaluru are two very disparate cities.
This has led to an escalation in river disputes among states.
Water pollution is another source of the crisis.
All water bodies in India, within or near populated areas, are contaminated with organic and hazardous pollutants.
Due to such pollution levels, not a single Indian city can provide clean tap water throughout the day.
Even the groundwater situation is dismal.
Another factor which can be said to one of the major reasons for the increasing stress on water tables is the prevalence of poor farming practices across India.
By some estimates, Indian agriculture accounts for about 90 per cent of the country’s annual domestic water consumption.
Due to the lack of reliable irrigation sources, farmers usually depend on underground sources of water.
Hopefully, a shift in water management will become visible at the ground level soon.