Ketchum residents, businesses advised to boil water, part of Warm Springs Road evacuated.
A treated water sample, tested at the same time from the same well, showed no signs of bacteria, a city statement said.
The positive sample is the result of a clerical mistake made by city staff in the process of sending in the sample for testing, the city said.
"On the form sent with the sample, staff should have checked a box indicating that the sample was a ‘special sample’ and that non-treated, raw water was not entering the drinking water system," the city said.
“But I also want to be clear that no untreated water entered the city’s drinking water system.
Boil advisories mean water delivered by the city’s system that will be used for drinking, food preparation, brushing teeth and cleaning dish and glassware should be boiled for at least one minute.
The well has been taken out of service and other wells have been put into service, the city said.
"City staff intends to continue enhanced monitoring of its municipal drinking water system throughout the flood event," KETCHUM — The Blaine County Sheriff’s Office has ordered a mandatory evacuation and hard road closure on Warm Springs Road.
Because of flooding, the road cannot be maintained.
"If you are physically unable to evacuate call 911.

Drinking water scarcity is the major problem that the residents of Agonda village panchayat have.
Housewives, who have to face the brunt of water, spoke their hearts out and said that it is the duty of the elected government to give enough water to the residents, but the government is lacking in technology on how to tap the available water and hence people have to suffer.
They said that the river has enough water flowing upto October-November every year but the bandhara constructed here some years back, has developed several leakages and as such the people have to go without water.
The next problem which the residents living at Davalkhazan face is the dilapidated condition of the BoriePul bridge which has developed several cracks and may give way, hence an alternate bridge is the need of the hour.
If this bridge gives way, the residents will be highly inconvenienced and will face a lot of hardships.
She said that the bridge issue was discussed in length and continuously debated for the last many gram sabhas over the years, wherein the panchayat authority after sending the resolution approached the concerned authority for a quick re-survey and necessary follow up.
A resident from Davalkhazan who does not wish to be named said that a few months ago shacks/tents/cottage have been taken up by the people along the coastal belt.
If this bridge gives way, it will inconvenience and cause hardship to tourists who use the bridge to land at Davalkhazan.
The wires mounted on electric poles have not been replaced.
Many electric lines run though small and big trees and during heavy wind they brush against branches resulting in a total black out.

57 million Nigerians lack access to portable drinking water- USAID.
The Mission Director, United State Agency for International Development (USAID), Stephen M. Haykin has said that over 57 million Nigerians lack access to portable water in the country.
Speaking on Thursday during the official launch of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Kaduna, he also added that one million Nigerian children die yearly for lack of drinking water.
He said the USAID was supporting the programme with $2.5 million to enable Nigerians have access to portable drinking water.
In his speech on the occasion, Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir El-rufai who was represented by his Chief of staff, Malam Bashir Saidu said when Zaria water work is completed, it will provide 150 million litres of water daily for the populace.
On his part, the governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar lamented that the influx of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the State had increased the demand for water supply at the expense of the original supply.
He therefore, pledged the commitment of his government to ensure the success of the project.

Oil isn’t even flowing through the Dakota Access pipeline yet, but already there’s been a leak.
"This is what we have said all along: Oil pipelines leak and spill," said Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman Dave Archambault II.
"The Dakota Access pipeline has not yet started shipping the proposed half million barrels of oil per day, and we are already seeing confirmed reports of oil spills from the pipeline."
Watch the VICELAND documentary on Standing Rock: The spill happened April 4 during the testing of a surge pump, according to Brian Walsh, an environmental scientist with the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
The surge pump had a mechanical failure, but the entire spill happened within a lined containment area.
* Walsh told me that South Dakota typically gets 200 to 300 spills a year from fuel leaks, pipelines, oil wells, and various other sources.
State regulations require companies to report spills right away, and Walsh said ETP did (it reported the spill two days after the fact, on April 6).
That decision could take weeks or months.
asks Hasselman.
As for the April spill, Hasselman pointed out that it would have received more attention if it were a major spill that affected drinking water.

As many as 1 million Californians, mostly in the farming communities of the Central Valley, have dangerous levels of an unregulated chemical linked to cancer in their drinking water, according to California’s State Water Board.
State and private water experts say it remains there and is now found in dangerous levels in the drinking water served by 94 different public water systems.
State data show about two-thirds of the 94 affected water systems are in the Central Valley, although the chemical also has been found at levels experts say is unsafe in parts of the Bay Area, Sacramento and Los Angeles.
The two chemical companies have argued in court they shouldn’t be responsible for damages or cleanup costs because the state doesn’t have a maximum legal limit set for TCP in drinking water.
Those Priorities Don’t Apply Here Activists and environmental groups argue Shell and Dow should bear cleanup costs where TCP contamination is found because of the chemical’s widespread marketing to farmers.
It should be on those that are causing it.” Monaco is working with Central Valley communities to test their water for contaminants such as TCP.
That’s what I worry about.” Although there is no legal limit set for TCP anywhere in the country, attorney Todd Robins has settled eight lawsuits filed against Dow and Shell on behalf of small public water systems affected by TCP.
“This is another compelling example of the fact that the poorest among us, the people with the voices that are least heard, bear the brunt of the worst environmental burdens.” Although no state in the country has set a maximum contaminant level (MCL) for TCP, California water officials expect to formalize an MCL for the chemical in drinking water soon.
If the water served to the public exceeds the MCL, the water system will be required to clean it up.
A previous NBC Bay Area investigation found that nearly 700,000 Californians still have drinking water contaminated by chemicals already regulated by the state.

DNR to provide clean drinking water for contaminated wells.
LUXEMBURG, Wis. (WLUK) — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is planning to provide clean drinking water to people whose wells are contaminated by manure runoff.
So Wagner and his family drink bottled water.
“I only get one gallon of water per hour,” Wagner told us As a Kewaunee County Board member, Wagner is happy to hear about the DNR’s program to provide clean water to his constituents dealing with similar struggles.
Wagner told FOX 11 he can’t benefit from the DNR’s program because the water that comes out of his well is only contaminated with nitrates, not bacteria.
We still haven’t found any bacteria, which is a good thing,” he explained.
Wagner said this is a good step, but: “How come this didn’t come out sooner?”
In statement, the DNR said several programs worked together to take this step as quickly as possible.
The DNR will only provide clean water for six months.
That year-old program is for people with contaminated wells in the Kewaunee and southern Door County area.

 

Chief secy pledges water for all.
Ranchi, May 10: Chief secretary Rajbala Verma today assured Jharkhand High Court that the government was committed to providing safe and hygienic drinking water to every citizen of the state.
Verma who appeared in person before a division bench of Chief Justice Pradip Kumar Mohanty and Justice Ananda Sen in a PIL said she was personally monitoring drinking water supply in the state.
The bench observed summer months were worse and scarcity of drinking water was unacceptable.
"Water is like a life saving drug.
On the court asking Verma about the poor condition of hand pumps in the state, she said: "Hand pumps are repaired and replaced as and when required."
Verma endorsed it.
The high court initiated the PIL after a report on water scarcity was published in a Hindi daily last April.
Clerks’ welfare Chief secretary Rajbala Verma on Wednesday told high court that welfare contribution for Advocates’ Clerks’ Association would be borne by the government for which a proposal had been put forth for cabinet acceptance.
Loo monitor Chief secretary Rajbala Verma on Wednesday informed high court that she would personally oversee construction and running of toilets in government schools in the state.

Dakota Access Pipeline suffered a minor oil spill in April.
The spill occurred at a rural pump station and didn’t pose a threat to the public’s drinking water, local authorities said.
“It was immediately contained and cleaned up,” said Brian Walsh, an environmental scientist at South Dakota’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
He said the incident was caused by a mechanical failure and mitigated by a liner that provides secondary containment.
Its construction has been strongly opposed by Native Americans and environmentalists.
“This just proves their hastiness is fueled by greed not in the best interest for tribes or the Dakotas,” Joye Braun, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux, said in a statement put out by Indigenous Environmental Network, a nonprofit that has opposed Dakota Access.
“Do we have more spills just waiting to happen?
This is our home, our land and our water,” Braun said.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe continues to fight Energy Transfer Partners in court in an effort to halt the project’s expected opening next month.
“This is what we have said all along: oil pipelines leak and spill,” Standing Rock Chairman Dave Archambault II said in a statement about the incident.

Congress Budget Deal Protects Water Programs.
By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue The Trump administration’s talk of slashing environmental programs in fiscal year 2018 did not translate into big cuts in a 2017 spending agreement negotiated by Congress.
“The fiscal year 2017 deal seemed to indicate there is good bipartisan support in Congress extending to the full suite of programs that support clean and safe water in the United States.” Water Across the Budget The agreement’s water-related provisions are many.
The agency’s two main water infrastructure loan programs are funded at the same level as in 2016: $US 1.4 billion for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and $US 863 million for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.
Combined with funding from a bill signed in December, the program will be able to loan just over $US 3 billion for large water projects.
Notice does not need to be “immediate.” Jennifer Caddick of the Alliance for the Great Lakes, an advocacy group, told Circle of Blue that though there is a long history of bipartisan support in Congress for the Great Lakes, the administration’s pronouncements that the restoration fund should be cancelled in 2018 is a cause of concern.
The agreement provides $US 67 million for construction of federal reservoirs or state-owned water storage projects.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural water loan and grant program is allocated $US 571 million, an increase of $US 48 million.
Certain firefighting foams — class B aqueous film forming foams — that are used for putting out petroleum fires have contaminated drinking water wells on bases and in nearby communities.
Aaron Clark, spokesman for Fitzpatrick, said that the report will be “a positive step towards remediating the contamination in our water supply.” But Fitzpatrick will continue to seek legislation requiring a health study of those affected by contaminated wells.

With livestock contamination of drinking water a growing concern in Wisconsin, the Department of Natural Resources has quietly started efforts to provide temporary water supplies to people with tainted wells. The DNR posted an update on its website in April that said it would provide temporary emergency drinking water when tests show that a water supply is contaminated and is likely due to groundwater contaminated by manure, a person on the property contracts a water-borne illness or there is a sudden change in color or odor of well water, Two environmental groups issued statements Tuesday announcing the state initiative. Afterward, the DNR said in a statement the agency used aspects from several programs under existing law to set up the water program. It also notified authorities in Kewaunee County, where well contamination has been most severe. The program’s low-key rollout on a high-profile issue perplexed environmental groups who say the agency has been reluctant to criticize the farm community over manure spreading. “This relief…