DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — Residents in several southern Iowa counties now have access to clean drinking water after a weekslong water-boil advisory was lifted Saturday, the Southern Iowa Water Rural Association said in a news release.
The drinking water advisory had been implemented after the 12-Mile Treatment Plant at Creston Water Works had a failure in its membrane filtration system.
Customers were warned that the water could contain bacteria, viruses and parasites.
The water association advised customers to use boiled or bottled water.
The boil advisory affected residents in Adair, Madison, Adams, Union, Taylor, Clarke, Ringgold and Decatur counties.
It is unclear whether those customers will have a reduced water bill because of the advisory, which lasted 16 days.
Hy-Vee had donated 20,000 gallons of bottled water at the Creston, Bedford and Mount Ayr stores, while its supplier partners, Pepsi Beverages Co. and Anheuser-Busch, donated more than 6,000 gallons of bottled water to southern Iowa communities impacted by the boil advisory and drinking water warning.