Wells running dry, limiting access to drinking water in Sarasota County.
SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA)- The lack of rain has left some families who depend on wells with hardly any water to drink.
“Almost 15 years, I’ve never experienced this,” Seymour said.
It isn’t a rural area, but many people depend on wells as their main source of water and without it, they’re scrambling.
Stolzfus lives next door and ran a water hose from his well to help Seymour, but he’s low on water too.
People in some areas are able to get connected to the county water supply if they’re close enough to water lines.
“In most cases, next day service to get people connected so they don’t have to deal with the issue any longer than necessary,” Public Utility Manager David Cash said.
It isn’t an option for Seymour.
Some residents in Sarasota County use well water to water their lawns and Cash said there is a water restriction in place.
Cash said it limits water use for lawns to one day a week on either Tuesday or Thursday depending on the resident’s address.

Wells running dry, limiting access to drinking water in Sarasota County.
SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA)- The lack of rain has left some families who depend on wells with hardly any water to drink.
“Almost 15 years, I’ve never experienced this,” Seymour said.
It isn’t a rural area, but many people depend on wells as their main source of water and without it, they’re scrambling.
Stolzfus lives next door and ran a water hose from his well to help Seymour, but he’s low on water too.
People in some areas are able to get connected to the county water supply if they’re close enough to water lines.
“In most cases, next day service to get people connected so they don’t have to deal with the issue any longer than necessary,” Public Utility Manager David Cash said.
It isn’t an option for Seymour.
Some residents in Sarasota County use well water to water their lawns and Cash said there is a water restriction in place.
Cash said it limits water use for lawns to one day a week on either Tuesday or Thursday depending on the resident’s address.

33 Airway Heights area restaurants asked to keep city water out of food and beverages.
The Spokane Regional Health District contacted 33 retail food businesses west of Hayford Road, said Lisa Breen, the food program technical adviser.
“The onus is put on the operators to be doing what they should be doing,” she said.
Restaurants are able to wash dishes with the contaminated water, Breen said.
Breen said the Health District did not contact wholesale food and beverage production facilities because they do not license them.
Read our coverage of the developing water contamination issues that have caused all residents within the Airway Heights city limits to be advised to avoid drinking and cooking with city tap water amid findings chemical contamination at Fairchild Air Force Base threatened purity of residential wells.
He hopes the City of Airway Heights reimburses him for the cost, so he’s saving the receipts.
The food safety issue is further complicated because the perfluorinated chemicals in question are not regulated by the federal government, meaning there isn’t a clear next step.
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering whether or not to regulate the chemical, Coleman said.
There is some discussion at the state level about whether or not Washington should create its own regulations ahead of the federal government, she said.

In consultation with Interior Health, the Regional District of Central Okanagan has downgraded a previously issued Boil Water Notice to a Water Quality Advisory for customers of the Killiney Beach and Westshore Estates water systems.
There is a difference between a Water Quality Advisory and a Boil Water Notice, which you can learn about here.
The City of Kelowna, South East Kelowna Irrigation District, Glenmore Ellison Irrigation District, Black Mountain Irrigation District and Rutland Waterworks District.
Currently, the whole City of Kelowna water system is on a Water Quality Advisory.
Glenmore Ellision Irrigation District (GEID) Currently has the Ellison system on a Boil Water Notice and the rest of their system is on a Water Quality Advisory.
RWD utilizes groundwater wells as its source and provides water to approximately 13,000 persons in central Rutland.
Currently, approximately 2,150 water customers in West Kelowna are under Water Quality Advisory.
The West Kelowna Estates (1,000 connections), Sunnyside (1,000 connections) and Pritchard (150 connections) Water Systems, which pull water from Okanagan Lake, are experiencing increased turbidity due to spring runoff and flooding activity.
The City will continue to monitor these systems and will advise customers when the Water Quality Advisory is lifted.
Killiney Beach – Boil Water Notice Westshore Estates – Boil Water Notice Peachland has three water sources and is currently on a Boil Water Notice.

Airway Heights water contamination to last at least 10 days.
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — Airway Heights city officials said Wednesday night the water that has been contaminated in their city system will not be cleared for at least 10 days.
The acids are classified by the EPA as emerging contaminants and are present in common household items and heat and fire resistant products, including aqueous film forming foam formulations that were used by the Air Force in fire trucks from 1970-2016 including those at Fairchild AFB.
The air force is validating the findings and they expect to provide final results to the city within two to three weeks.
So far, 40,000 gallons of water has been distributed both at a pickup point and delivered to those who can’t leave their homes.
Albert Tripp, the Airway Heights city manager, said the reason for the delay in getting the water cleared is because they must treat the water before discharging it from the system.
“We do consider that constituent will need to be treated before it is discharged to the ground or the environment and so we’re working with the city to identify ways to proceed cleaning the distribution system.” City leaders said Tuesday bottled water will be given out behind the Yokes at 12825 W. 17th.
Officials ask that you bring a driver’s license or a piece of mail to verify your address.
City leaders said they will be taking steps to remove the contaminants from the water.
They hope to reduce the levels of the contaminants from the city’s water system to safe levels within the next three to four days.

AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. – Airway Heights water customers are being advised not to drink the city’s water or use it for cooking due to ground water contamination. On Tuesday, Airway Heights and Fairchild Airforce Base said preliminary groundwater sampling results for two water wells indicate high levels of two different acids (PFOS and PFOA). The acids are classified by the EPA as emerging contaminants and are present in common household items and heat and fire resistant products, including aqueous film forming foam formulations that were used by the Air Force in fire trucks from 1970-2016 including those at Fairchild AFB. The air force is validating the findings and they expect to provide final…

Tainted water found in wells near Suffolk fire academy in Yaphank.
The 28-acre training site sits across Yaphank Avenue from a small residential neighborhood where private wells have also tested positive for the compounds, prompting Suffolk County to begin hooking up those residences to public water supplies.
It’s a patchwork of homes with either public water or private wells, said Suffolk County Water Authority CEO Jeff Szabo.
The compounds aren’t regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency but the federal authority last year set a health advisory of 70 parts per trillion for both PFOS and PFOA combined.
A National Toxicology Program report based on animal and human subjects released last year “found these chemicals were presumed to be immune hazards to people,” said Laurel Schaider, a research scientist with Silent Spring Institute in Massachusetts.
About 50 homes over three phases will be connected at no charge to Suffolk County Water Authority wells, and bottled water is being delivered to affected residences for cooking and drinking, Suffolk Health Commissioner Dr. James L. Tomarken said.
“I was very upset that they never tested it before,” said Corbett, adding that she has lived at the house for 19 years.
They need the political will.” Suffolk County Deputy Executive Peter Scully said $250,000 is in the proposed budget to pay for the water hookups and additional investigating.
The designation of the Yaphank site is part of an overall push from the state’s water quality rapid response team to address contamination from PFOS and PFOA, which also are used in some fire-retardant materials and food packaging.
Homes with private wells are not subject to drinking water regulations but public water suppliers must meet safety standards.

Tanzania: Names of 32 Deceased in Karatu Accident for Inscription On Water Well.
World Islamic Propagation and Humanitarian Services (WIPAHS) intends to inscribe on a water well the names of 32 Lucky Vincent School pupils who died in the road accident in Karatu recently.
The organisation, which will donate the facility to the community that endure water scarcity, said the residents will fetch water free of charge, believing that the souls of the young learners will be blessed by God through the services.
"Water is a crucial commodity for living, we think that through granting the water well on behalf of the deceased little angels, we will have played our part in praying for them to go to heaven," WIPAHS Spokesperson Amina Mbaraka told the ‘Daily News’ in Dar es Salaam during the special prayers for the fallen children whose demise shocked the nation.
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Ms Mbaraka noted that they expect to construct the water well within the three months, but they are still contemplating on the location.
Acting Education Officer in Kibaha, Mr Ramadhani Lawoga, called on the school owners to observe traffic laws when transporting students to avoid unnecessary accidents.
One of the mourners who participated in the prayers, Ms Atwiya Adam Ahmed, said "We join our fellow parents who lost their beloved ones in the accident, as parents we feel the same pain."

A pair of Dumfries homeowners have filed suits seeking millions in damages from Dominion Energy, claiming heavy metals seeping from coal ash ponds at the Possum Point Power Station contaminated their drinking water wells. The power station’s coal ash ponds, where the remnants of burnt coal were kept, are the scene of a clash among the utility, residents, and state and local officials over the company’s closure plans. The lawsuits — filed on behalf of Daniel Marrow and his family and Brian West, both of whom own homes on Possum Point Road near the power station — allege that concentrations of hexavalent chromium, lead, boron, cobalt and other metals found in their wells came from the nearby power plant, which burned coal until 2003. “The defendant knew or should have known that placing multiple unlined coal ash ponds near a residential community that relied on well water would cause groundwater contamination that would then contaminate the nearby properties and potable wells,” the suits say. Marrow’s suit claims damages of $6 million while West’s claims $3 million. The Virginia Beach lawyer who filed both suits, Mark J. Favaloro, referred a reporter to Annapolis, Md., attorney Roy Mason, who could not be reached Friday. “Dominion is aware that the lawsuit has been filed in Prince William County,” company spokesman Robert Richardson said. “However, the company has not…

The city of Dayton stopped pumping water at a Huffman Dam well field in April after a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base monitoring well near the dam showed tainted groundwater above a federal environmental threshold for contaminants found in firefighting foam, officials say.
The Dayton production well field will remain closed until the city and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency “are comfortable that operation of these wells will not cause the migration” of groundwater contaminants from the base into the city’s well field, according to Michelle D. Simmons, a city water department environmental manager.
However, city and base environmental officials say drinking water in both the city of Dayton and at Wright-Patterson is safe to consume.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a threshold health advisory level of 70 parts per trillion for drinking water from contaminants found in Aqueous Film Forming Foam, a fire suppressant.
Base will reopen closed wells Wright-Patterson tentatively expects to reopen two closed contaminated drinking water wells next week in Area A when a new $2.7 million water treatment facility starts operations.
The Ohio EPA has cited concerns a contaminated groundwater plume could potentially reach other drinking wells on base and the seven city of Dayton production wells at Huffman Dam.
The two contaminated wells in Area A at Wright-Patterson posed “a continued threat to public health from the potential plume emanation to the city of Dayton well field,” the state agency reported last summer.
Since then, water had been cycled through one pump each day at Huffman Dam and sent to a treatment facility to keep the pumps in operation, Simmons said.
Additional tests for contamination None of the city’s monitoring wells at the Huffman Dam well field sampled in December showed contamination levels above the EPA threshold nor has it been detected in the water distribution system, according to Simmons.
In addition to the new $2.7 million water treatment facility, the base has spent about $1.5 million on groundwater testing-related costs, according to Bashore.