Boil water advisory for city of Whitefish.
The Whitefish water system recently experienced a water main break that caused the system pressure to drop and some areas of town to be without water.
The city of Whitefish public water supply has experienced a water main break.
Water system personnel worked diligently to get the break isolated and water pressure is being restored.
These people should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers.
Microbes in these wastes can cause diarrhea, cramps, nausea, headaches, or other symptoms.
-The symptoms above are not caused only by organisms in drinking water.
People at increased risk should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers.
– Bacteriological samples of the water have been collected.
– City personnel are closely monitoring the situation and will update users.

The Riskos worry that nearby development has finally caught up to them; that PFOA and PFOS have, over decades, crept down from military bases miles to the north through area waterways and infiltrated their lives through a pair of private wells the couple uses for drinking water.
The Riskos’ situation shows that concerns about PFOA and PFOS contamination reach beyond the boundary lines that the military is using to investigate the issue.
Within the boundaries, more than 200 private wells have been found to be contaminated at levels deemed unsafe, but those like Risko wonder if there are even more beyond those lines.
Just how far away are the public wells?
The military and EPA have sampled hundreds of private wells in the region, finding more than 200 have been contaminated above 70 ppt by the chemicals.
Military officials have also previously said they’re legally unable to provide remediation for wells with levels below 70 ppt, because it is the number the EPA has established as safe.
Her private well has been tested twice by the EPA; both times the chemicals were detected at about half the agency’s recommended limit.
In the second half of 2014, the military began testing public and private water wells in the region.
About two years after the test, the family is still waiting to be connected to public water.
Jones said connecting the Johnson home to public water is taking some time because it is "one of the properties that does not have a readily accessible existing water main to tap into."

St. Joseph residents to receive water through September because of lead contamination.
Their water has been coming from the state’s disaster relief stocks since Dec. 16.
Before St. Joe residents can brush their teeth with tap water again, the town’s entire water system will have to be replaced.
Even before lead was found in St. Joseph, for years the water often came out of the faucet brown and smelly leaving many not drink it if they didn’t have to, he said.
And children under the age six are the most vulnerable to lower IQs, hearing problems, anemia and other serious health problem caused by ingesting even small amounts of lead.
Guidry’s Office of Public Health continues testing throughout the town but his scientists have focused intensely on the 38 homes with the highest readings.
Guidry said he doesn’t know for sure yet, but judging from the years of tests that showed no lead contamination, he suspects that instability of St. Joseph’s system caused some of the old pipes and old repairs started flaking lead into the water.
St. Joseph’s water system, in an average month, costs $36,305 to operate but raises only $17,250 in revenues, according Greer’s report.
State money to replace the town’s water distribution lines became available on Jan. 22 and work has begun.
The court-appointed fiscal administrator also reported that refurbishing the treatment facility also has begun but the costs haven’t determined yet.

Photo/ ThinkStock 19 schools had at least one water fixture positive for lead above federal action levels, and 13 of those tested positive for both lead and copper.
The Enterprise @AnnaBurgess_ENT BROCKTON – Water fixtures at 19 of the district’s 23 schools have been shut off in recent months after they tested positive for lead or copper contamination.
Of the 23 school buildings in Brockton, 19 had at least one water fixture that tested positive for lead above federal action levels, and 13 of those tested positive for both lead and copper above action levels.
At every other school, both lead and copper levels were high in some water fixtures.
Other school committee members said they were glad to have done the testing and taken action on the results.
Ward 4 committee member Brett Gormley said, "I’m happy the state DEP gave us the chance to do this, because we never would have known about (these fixtures)."
Sullivan said he was "a little surprised" to see the results, but said he thought the district was "doing the right thing" in shutting off or replacing the fixtures right away.
In Brockton, a high percentage of children have had elevated lead levels in the past decade.
Between 2005 and 2015, 15 percent of Brockton children tested had elevated lead levels, while only 5 percent of children in Flint had elevated levels during its water contamination crisis.
He said these contaminants, which have possibly been in some school fixtures for years, may be connected with a higher-than-average rate of children testing positive for elevated lead levels.

UPDATE: Health district recommends Lincoln and Gooding counties check water.
(KMVT/KSVT) — Authorities recommend a well-water check Wednesday afternoon for the northwest portion of Lincoln County, and a portion of Gooding County for possible groundwater contamination due to recent flooding.
“Because of possible well water contamination, South Central Public Health District is recommending that residents living within 10 miles of 8 Mile Road and 720 North do not use untreated well water,” according to a post on the district’s Facebook page.
Anyone who believes their groundwater may be contaminated can contact South Central Public Health District.
Water test kits have run out at the Gooding County Courthouse, but they are available at the Public Health District office in Gooding, at 255 N. Canyon Drive.
Test kits are also available at the Lincoln County Community Center.
For more information, contact the South Central Public Health District at 208-737-5900.
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story said there was a boil order in place.
Authorities have updated that to a well-water check.
They recommend getting a testing kit and testing any drinking water.

Recent reports about the presence of lead in some of the country’s drinking water and the health risks associated with it have created a spike in sales of bottled mineral water.
According to the StoreNext retail data firm, since TheMarker initially disclosed water-quality data from the Israel Standards Institution earlier this month, there has been an 11.8 percent increase in the sales of bottled mineral water.
This comes on the backdrop of what have already been steady increases in mineral water sales in the country – up by 0 percent since 2011 and by 5 percent in 2016 alone.
The major food retailers and smaller corner groceries alike have all been seeing similar increases in bottled water sales since the news about the lead in tap water; all the major mineral water brands have also been experiencing similar sales jumps since those reports broke.
StoreNext reported that sales of Neviot mineral water (a brand of the Central Bottling Company, the local Coca-Cola licensee) jumped 14.8 percent; Mei Eden sales have been up 11.6 percent; and sales of Jafora-Tabori’s Ein Gedi brand have risen 9.4 percent during the period from February 1 to 18.
News of tainted water followed the Health Ministry’s disclosure on January 18 that samples of water taken from espresso machines at some cafes had prompted concern about the presence of lead.
A report prepared by the Health Ministry in 2013 that was recently made public took issue with what had been the ministry position – that the presence of lead in lower concentrations than the maximum allowed amount was not dangerous.
"The main concern in such cases is harm caused by lead to the fetus’ developing nervous system, and studies have demonstrated that even [exposure to] very low concentrations [of lead] in pregnant women can cause damage to children’s intelligence and behavior.
Such exposure during pregnancy can also cause miscarriage and stillbirth,” he adds.
During the last three decades of the 20th century, studies showed that long-term effects of lead could ensue among children even after exposure to very small amounts of the substance that caused no symptoms initially.

This First Nation Is Still Under Boil-Water Advisory After 21 Years.
Neskantaga First Nation in Ontario has had to boil water since 1995.
According to a 2015 CBC investigation, "Two-thirds of all First Nation communities in Canada have been under at least one drinking water advisory at some time in the last decade."
Water on First Nations reserves is a federal responsibility, but "severe underfunding" (in the government’s own words) for water treatment plants, infrastructure, operations, maintenance and training has led to this deplorable situation.
Canada has no federal standards or binding regulations governing First Nations’ drinking water.
If the federal government is to fulfill its commitment to ending advisories in five years, it must reform its system.
And in one community that had its advisory lifted, new drinking water problems emerged, illustrating the need for sustainable, long-term solutions.
It calls on government to redouble its efforts to advance First Nations-led initiatives, fulfill its fiduciary responsibility to First Nations, respect the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and ensure the human right to safe and clean drinking water.
The federally funded Safe Water Project is one example of a First Nations–led approach.
Clean drinking water on reserves is not just an Indigenous issue.