CUSHING, Iowa (KTIV) – Officials in Cushing have lifted a water boil advisory in the city.
Officials say the Cushing Water Supply had a scheduled pressure loss Wednesday as part of a planned connection to the distribution system.
Officials say the samples from the water contained no bacteria.
Residents with questions are asked to call City Hall at (712) 384-2189.
CUSHING, Iowa (KTIV) – Officials in Cushing have issued a boil advisory for the city.
Officials say the Cushing Water Supply had a scheduled pressure loss Wednesday as part of a planned connection to the distribution system.
Because of potential bacterial contamination, residents are recommended to boil their water before drinking or cooking, or to use an alternative source.
The water can be used for bathing and other similar purposes.
Residents will be notified when the advisory has been lifted.
For more information, contact City Hall at (712) 384-2189.

It will be at least a few days before users of the Vavenby Community Water System know if they can again use the the water.
A semi-truck crashed into the North Thompson River 31 kilometres north of Vavenby, causing diesel fuel to leak into the river upstream of the community, which is about one hour and 40 minutes north of Kamloops on Highway 5 North.
Notes from a Thompson-Nicola Regional District meeting updating users of the water supply stated officials planned to remove the truck and trailer from the river and assess any damage on Monday.
If test results of the water system show no sign of contaminants in the system, it is expected Interior Health will lift its do-not-use notice.
TNRD Electoral Area A director Carol Schaffer told KTW once the truck is removed from the river, the Ministry of Environment will begin testing.
The vehicle was hauling meat, she said.
All water users are advised to use bottled water or an alternate source of water for drinking, making ice, washing dishes, brushing teeth, bathing and food preparation until further notice.
Boiling the water will not make it safe.
Residents who draw their water from the system should check for signs of diesel fuel, such as a sheen or fuel odour.
Clearwater Mayor Merlin Blackwell told KTW his community — located downstream of Vavenby — is not impacted by the spill as the town doesn’t draw its water from the North Thompson River.

We’re following the latest on a water lawsuit filed by the city of Tucson and town of Marana to protect the public from potentially negative health effects from the groundwater supply.
The lawsuit alleges 3M, a company that manufactures firefighting foam used at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, contaminated parts of the water supply in Tucson and Marana.
3M, the company the city of Tucson and Marana is suing just settled a similar water lawsuit in Minnesota for $850 million dollars.
It’s building treatment plants to go and clean up the problem that we have now and it’s also paying for maintenance for those treatment plants going forward,” Steve Kozachik Ward 6 Councilman said.
In 2017, two wells near the Davis-Monthan Air Force base were closed down.
The town of Marana also teaming up on the lawsuit had two areas in marana tested for those contaminants.
“We’ve filed a notice to intend to litigate.
Kozachik says he’s hoping the lawsuit will be settled out of court.
“Instead of having to go to court 3M does what they did in Minnesota.
That they are putting into the water supply and instead of having to litigate that they’ll settle out of court,” Kozachik said.

However, these same chemicals have leached into two nearby Portsmouth supply wells and are making their way into the municipal water supply and into our homes.
Not all chemicals are harmful.
In the case of PFAS, however, the evidence points overwhelmingly to the fact that these compounds are harmful to human health, even at extraordinarily small concentrations.
It is clear that the EPA’s current provisional health advisory for PFOA and PFOS is inadequate and leaves the public vulnerable to potentially life-altering consequences of exposure.
The work conducted by the federal public health agency concluded that acceptable risk levels for exposure to PFOA and PFOS are seven to 10 times lower than the risk levels that the EPA used to calculate the current drinking water health advisories.
For example, New Jersey and Vermont have both developed drinking water guidelines well below the EPA’s health advisory.
Dangerous chemicals were deposited for years and are now contaminating nearby water supplies.
The consequences of these activities are expensive.
The Coakley Landfill Group has spent $17 million in remediation to date; the Portsmouth taxpayers’ share of that figure comes to $8.5 million and counting.
A healthy population depends on safe, clean drinking water.

A state water safety committee met on Monday for the first time this year, just five days before its recommendations were due to the Legislature.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the West Virginia Public Water Supply System Study Commission was established in 2014 after a chemical spill at Freedom Industries contaminated drinking water for 300,000 people in the Charleston area.
Committee members told the paper they endorsed the recommendations from an independent water protection study at their meeting.
But they also complained they had little time to read the report.
Angie Rosser is executive director of the West Virginia Rivers Coalition.
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#ReadLocal Recommendations in the independent report include changes to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s spill hotline and using language like "drinking water protection" instead of "source water protection."
and dust off this report and it’s like, ‘This recommendation about improving the spill report was right here?
Why didn’t it get implemented?’"
The state’s Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council has estimated that $17 billion is needed to correct West Virginia’s water infrastructure issues.

A state water safety committee met on Monday for the first time this year, just five days before its recommendations were due to the Legislature.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the West Virginia Public Water Supply System Study Commission was established in 2014 after a chemical spill at Freedom Industries contaminated drinking water for 300,000 people in the Charleston area.
Committee members told the paper they endorsed the recommendations from an independent water protection study at their meeting.
But they also complained they had little time to read the report.
Angie Rosser is executive director of the West Virginia Rivers Coalition.
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#ReadLocal Recommendations in the independent report include changes to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s spill hotline and using language like "drinking water protection" instead of "source water protection."
and dust off this report and it’s like, ‘This recommendation about improving the spill report was right here?
Why didn’t it get implemented?’"
The state’s Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council has estimated that $17 billion is needed to correct West Virginia’s water infrastructure issues.

LOUISA, Va. (AP) — Officials say the contamination of a Virginia city’s water supply that triggered evacuations late last month was caused by methane gas released from the sewer system.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Louisa town and county officials on Tuesday said the methane gas entered through traps in drains that typically prevent the backflow of methane.
Those traps are supposed to collect water to help stop the backflow, but several were found dry where proper maintenance practices weren’t followed.
The town’s statement also said improper disposal of grease can contribute to increased methane production.
The evacuation and “do not use” orders were lifted Nov. 30, a day after the gas was detected.
The county’s water supply was flushed, and the Virginia Department of Health and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency say it’s safe.
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CUC had strongly recommended that customers boil the CUC Saipan water before drinking.
Based on the latest information from CUC, between Nov. 7, 2018 and Nov. 20, 2018, CUC personnel tested 90 samples for coliform and E. coli bacteria from all areas of the Saipan water system.
All samples contained adequate levels of disinfection and none of the samples contained coliform bacteria.
The notice was distributed on Dec. 6.
CUC also reported that the water supply on Tinian has been stabilized.
CUC’s Tinian customers were notified on Oct. 27 about the water system being disrupted by Yutu.
A similar recommendation to boil CUC Tinian water before drinking was also issued.
Between Nov. 6 and Nov. 28, CUC personnel tested 11 samples for coliform and E.coli bacteria from all areas of the Tinian water system.
All of the other 10 samples were free of bacteria.
With the Tinian water system providing daily water service to the entire island, it is no longer necessary to boil the water before drinking.

From finishing the pending water supply projects to filling the summer storage tanks, the officials have expedited all works and are targeting to complete them in the next three months.
While the Panchayat Raj and Rural Development department has set a target to complete water supply works worth Rs 1,329 crore, which are being undertaken through the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), NABARD and other programmes, works worth only Rs 248 crore were completed by the end of November.
“We are taking measures for the construction of water harvesting structures and completion of the new and old supply schemes by March next year,” the officials said.
According to the officials, a total of 347 mandals were hit by a drought across the State during the early Kharif-2018.
Out of them, 325 mandals were ‘severely hit’, while 22 were ‘moderately hit’ and the department had laid special focus on these areas.
Further, the department is in the process of ensuring that over 1,600 summer storage tanks are filled in the next four months.
Of them, close to 1,300 tanks are filled to a minimum of 50 per cent.
The remaining will be filled in the next three months.
Tenders for the remaining nine packages have also been invited,” another official said.
While the bidding process for the works in Krishna, West Godavari, Prakasam and Visakhapatnam districts have been concluded, tenders have been issued for the works in Guntur, Vizianagaram, Nellore, Anantapur, Kurnool and Kadapa districts.

The advisory is because of low water pressure and a leak in the water main, according to a press release.
Customers who live in the following areas are affected: Between the area of Collingwood Subdivision east of North Woods Court.
North of Ivy Lane.
Southeast around Earthland Road and Strawn Road.
South around Coats Lane and Perche Hills Estate Subdivision.
The advisory does not include the areas of River Oaks and Forever Green Estates Subdivision, northwest of Sugar Creek Drive, or northeast into Collingwood Subdivision to North Woods Court.
People in the affected areas may need to take the following precautions, according to the release: Boil water for three minutes before using.
Use only boiled or bottled water for drinking, brushing teeth and all food preparations and consumptions.
Buy ice or make ice cubes with boiled or bottled water.
Customers with questions can call the Water District at 449-0324.