ABERDEEN, Miss.
(WCBI) – A positive test for E. coli in the Aberdeen water supply, prompts a boil water notice and a run on bottled water.
Now, over 5,000 people are trying to find enough water for their daily needs.
When you walk in Subway in Aberdeen, you’ll see this sign on the drink machine and gallons of water stored behind the counter.
“We have dishes piled on top of dishes.
We can’t use the water for dishes, so it’s hard making things hard,” says shift manager, Kisha Hubbard.
coli present at well number seven and we shut it down and it’s off-line right now, so there’s no more contaminated water coming into the system,” says Aberdeen Water Department Supervisor, Jason Roberson.
I have to pull 17 samples and send them back in and see if everything is clear enough to lift the boil water notice.” Until then about 5,500 people-Families, businesses, and schools are having to boil their water or buy bottled water.
“We went to Food Giant and they are out of water.
“It’s always an inconvenience not having the water, so what we’ve done, we’ve purchased 3,600 bottles of water, so we want to make sure that all of our students have at least one bottle of water a day for the next three days, while the boil water notice is in effect.” “If all of the water sample results come back good, Thursday everything will be lifted and everything will be back to normal.” The city of Aberdeen has 11 wells, and as Roberson mentioned, only water from Well 7 tested positive for E.coli bacteria.