Despite the advisory — which orders Stuart water customers to boil their water before using it for drinking and cooking — some local businesses and restaurants are continuing to use the water.
"As long as you run the lines … for five minutes, everything’s fine," Justin Bauman, kitchen manager at Stuart Coffee Company, said Tuesday morning.
More: Stuart water customers could be on boil-water notice for the rest of the week Several downtown business owners called City Hall Tuesday morning to report they’d been told by a "site inspector" that the water was safe.
"We did everything we had to do to get everything safe again.” Hogarth said the city likely would have an update Tuesday night, but could not estimate when the advisory would be lifted.
Stuart’s water system may have become contaminated Monday morning after a generator malfunction at the water-treatment plant, according to the city.
"Regardless of what FPL did, the cause of the failure is an electrical breaker causing the generator to fail," Peters said in an email.
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(Photo: LEAH VOSS/TCPALM) At Luna restaurant, manager Tim Horton said workers took “all appropriate measures.” Horton said the boil-water advisory was “precautionary,” not mandatory.
India Palace patron Tom Tarsia was having a lunch of chicken tandoori, goat curry and a large glass of water.
Tarsia said he was unaware of the boil-water notice.