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Boil Water Notice Continues In Nine Mile Road Area
August 5, 2011
Effective immediately, a precautionary boil water notice has been issued for the area of Nine Mile Road (both sides of the road) from Chemstrand Road to Highway 29 North, (Pensacola Blvd.) including the following streets:
- All of Holsberry Road north and south of Nine Mile
- Nims Lane
- Allison Lane
- Holsberry Lane
- Tulsa Drive
- Holsberry Place
- Edith Lane
- Strandview Drive
- Salets Street
- Craft Street
- Sprague Drive
- Chandler Street
- Chauncey Street
- North Palafox from Nine Mile to 9 ½ Mile
- Highway 29 North (Pensacola Blvd.) from 9 Mile Road to 10 Mile Road, east side of the street only
This notice is being issued following a water main break. Residents are advised to boil water for one minute at a rolling boil or to use six drops of regular unscented household bleach per gallon of water for water to be used for drinking of cooking purposes. Bacteriological sampling is underway and the advisory will be lifted as soon as possible.
ECUA crews have repaired the main, and are flushing out the lines. Residents are advised that there is a possibility of discolored water as a result of the break and flushing, and to flush their home’s plumbing by running their taps for a few minutes. If problems persist, customers are asked to contact ECUA Customer Service at (850) 476-0480 for assistance, or see precautionary boil water notice guidelines on the ECUA website at www.ecua.fl.gov.
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5 Responses to “Boil Water Notice Continues In Nine Mile Road Area”
Thank you, jcellop. I appreciate the kind words.
Food service establishments must adhere to the precautionary boil water notice (pbwn), and we always communicate directly with restaurants, schools, day care centers, nursing homes and hospitals when such businesses are in an affected (pbwn)area. If the business is open, the ECUA supervisor on site generally visits the business personally. If it is after hours and the business, scvhool, etc. is closed, we communicate by telephone (leave a message) and follow up as soon as they are open.
ms bowers- excellent job at quickly identifing the exact problem for us and then, explaining, in detail, the information related to the state requirements for the water testing methods, etc….also, are the many eating establishments ( in the affected area) required to boil their water or add chlorine? or, does it only remain an “advisory precaution” for them for the next several days, to adhere to (or not) per their choice?
Jane,
Here is some information that may clarify the issue of precautionary boil water notices:
All public water utilites in Florida are required by the State (Florida Department of Environmental Protection) to issue a precautionary boil water notice within 24 hours when there is the possibility of contamination following a loss in pressure (as can happen when there is a water main break). ECUA is diligent about issuing these as soon as possible after a such an occurence. We post the information on our website and send the information to local media for the news cycle.
In a system such as ours, which has over 1900 miles of water mains, a few breaks per week or per month are expected and quite normal. In yesterday’s case, a rather large main (16-inch line) was accidently cut by a contractor working on a nearby road project. Typically, our crews repair the break and flush the line, and in this particular case, those repairs have been completed. We are required to take 2 sets of samples, upstream and down stream of the break point, for water quality testing. It takes about 48 hrs. for the lab results to come back. When we lift a precautionary notice within a 2-3 day time frame, that’s an indication that everything came back clear. You’ll notice that this is the case virtually every time a notice is issued. In fact, I believe that not seeing water main breaks in the news, and the precautionary boil water notices they trigger, would be the cause for concern.
One final point with regard to your comment– I think you may be confusing our new water reclamation plant, which deals with wastewater, with the water system. That water reclamation facility has been operating approximately one year and is performing in accordance with its permit.
I hope this helps clarify the issue. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any other questions..
They hit a water main on 9 mile while putting in those wonderful little sidewalks
for the vagrants down by the pass to 29. I sure think it is worth it to have those
little side walks, besides money is no problem here or in this nation. We paid
for the side walks, we are paying for the fix because they didn’t do their home work before digging and thus busted the water main. As far as I’m concerned
we should be sueing the people doing the side walks and make they pay
for their own mess, it’s bad enough we have to boil water till they clean it up.
More money down the drain……no pun intended
OK maybe a little intention
Seems as if there have been several “boil water” notices by ECUA lately…why? They keep saying how great their new system is….must not be that efficient if they keep having water main leaks and boil water notices. Kind of makes you wonder how safe it really is?