Municipal water mains located under city streets may have been compromised during the erosion.
Residents and businesses, including food establishments, in the Houghton County area may be affected.
Bacteria are common throughout the environment and generally are not harmful.
However, whenever a water system is damaged or loses pressure for any significant length of time or water quality issues are observed, precautionary measures are recommended.
If the water is not clear, DO NOT DRINK THE WATER, only drink or cook with bottled water.
Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, coffee,pop or other beverages, and preparing food until further notice.
Boiling kills bacteria and other organisms in the water.
Instructions for“disinfecting small volumes of water” is posted on the health department website at www.wupdhd.org.
Health Department (WUPHD) web site atwww.wupdhd.org.
Another notice will be issued when the boil water advisory has been lifted.

Municipal water mains located under city streets may have been compromised during the erosion.
Residents and businesses, including food establishments, in the Houghton County area may be affected.
Bacteria are common throughout the environment and generally are not harmful.
However, whenever a water system is damaged or loses pressure for any significant length of time or water quality issues are observed, precautionary measures are recommended.
If the water is not clear, DO NOT DRINK THE WATER, only drink or cook with bottled water.
Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, coffee,pop or other beverages, and preparing food until further notice.
Boiling kills bacteria and other organisms in the water.
Instructions for“disinfecting small volumes of water” is posted on the health department website at www.wupdhd.org.
Health Department (WUPHD) web site atwww.wupdhd.org.
Another notice will be issued when the boil water advisory has been lifted.

Battle Creek city officials have lifted a drinking water advisory after reviewing 52 test results looking for elevated levels of manganese.
The advisory was lifted at 3 p.m. (Photo: Trace Christenson/TheEnquirer) All but the four samples tested at levels below the acceptable U.S. Environmental Protection Agency health standard for manganese, which is a naturally-occurring element, Fleury said.
The advisory was issued after a test of a hydrant in Springfield showed levels of 0.98 parts billion of manganese.
Officials said they believe the levels were high at the hydrant because it was used infrequently.
The four elevated results were at wells at the city’s Verona Pumping Station.
However, none of those wells are directly feeding the city’s water distribution system, Koehn said.
The city plans to work with the state Department of Environmental Quality on manganese filtering at the plant, and with the state Department of Health and Human Service on further testing, including when hydrants are flushed.
The city’s drinking water advisory was in effect for infants since Thursday after city, county and state officials alerted the public about elevated levels of manganese found in the city’s drinking water.
Earlier Saturday, the city also said those with a liver condition should consider not drinking the tap water.
In response to the advisory, the city gave away 6,785 cases of water to 3,500 families Fleury said Saturday.

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.

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.

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.

Elevated manganese levels found in the city’s water system in Springfield and Battle Creek has led the city to issue a drinking water advisory.
Only infants under 1 year old should not drink the water from the water system at this time, city officials said in a statement released Thursday afternoon.
All other ages are not affected by the advisory.
The high levels of manganese were initially found in a sample from the city of Springfield.
High doses of the element can affect the nervous system.
Testing found manganese in Battle Creek water at 0.98 parts per million, more than three times the health advisory level for children under 12 months old, which is 0.3 parts per million for short-term exposure, defined as one to 10 days.
Water in Springfield was found to have 0.68 parts per million.
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Levels of manganese — a metallic element — have been detected at levels higher than federal acute health advisory recommendations in Battle Creek’s drinking water.
The levels were first found at a fire hydrant in Springfield, which buys water from Battle Creek.
More testing was done, and elevated levels also found at a hydrant in Battle Creek.
There are no elevated results from Bedford, Emmett, and Pennfield townships, however, the city is including customers in those areas as well.
The health advisory level for children under 12 months old is 0.3 ppm for short-term exposure – one to 10 days.
The health advisory level for children older than 12 months, and adults, is 1.0 ppm for short-term exposure.
The city also tested the water where it comes out of the drinking water treatment plant – Verona Pumping Station – and did not find manganese.
At the levels found in the above samples, the body of adults and children older than 12 months, can remove excess manganese.
For more information about manganese and your health, please contact the Calhoun County Public Health Department hotline at 269-969-6852.
The city also has set up a hotline, 269-966-3311, which will provide the information here, and connect callers with Department of Public Works staff, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Wheatland, N.Y. (WHAM) – Some residents in Wheatland are concerned their drinking water might be contaminated after a van crashed with a tanker truck Monday, spilling more than 500 gallons of gasoline onto the ground.
Karen McKay, who lives across the street, isn’t taking any chances.
"We’re concerned, and my neighbors are concerned about the gasoline and the fuel that spilled into the ground only a couple hundred feet from our well, our water supply," McKay said.
Her neighbor, Laurie Massaro, is also concerned.
Monroe County Emergency Manager Tim Kohlmeier said the amount of gasoline spilled was small, and there was no runoff from the site.
“The Monroe County hazmat team responded and did an evaluation of the overturned tanker to determine extent of spill, and determined it wasn’t flowing downstream,” said Kohlmeier.
“Nobody has talked to us, or even mentioned anything to us in regard to contamination,” said Massaro.
A spokesperson from the DEC tells 13WHAM it has no reason to believe any water supplies were affected.
DEC continues to monitor the situation and oversee the removal of the contaminated soils.
Residents in the area are encouraged not to drink well water and to contact DEC if well water has an oily odor.

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