Residents and businesses in Georgetown are being asked to boil tap water before consuming it after a problem with a tap at a pumping station possibly contaminated drinking water, affecting nearly 34,000 Washington, D.C. residents in parts of Northwest and Northeast Washington Friday morning.
Students of Georgetown, Inc. closed More Uncommon Grounds and Uncommon Grounds “out of abundance of caution,” as a result of the water contamination risk, they announced Friday morning on posters outside the two stores.
The affected neighborhoods include anywhere bound by the east by Eastern Avenue, to the south by New York Avenue to K Street to Whitehurst Freeway and to the north by Western Avenue to Massachusetts Avenue to Nebraska Avenue to Military road to Missouri to New Hampshire Avenue, according to D.C. Water.
It is safe to bathe in the water as long as it is not ingested.
Matt Buckwald (COL ’20) is staying in a townhouse in Burleith over the summer.
The advisory is frustrating, he said, but he is trying to make light of the situation.
“The most frustrating part about all this is that if I hadn’t gotten a Hoya Alert through Georgetown then I wouldn’t have known about this,” Buckwald wrote in a text.
“Besides that, I already drank like three glasses of tap water this morning, but who knows maybe I’ll develop a superpower or something.” This story will continue to be updated with announcements from the university as they become available on services for students and administrators.
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