Posted on 10/01/2007 4:29:26 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
WEST PALM BEACH - Chlorine began flowing this morning to cleanse West Palm Beach's contaminated water supply, and authorities are still searching for the source of the contamination that prompted a boil water order likely to last through Wednesday.
Affected water customers can help too: At 8 p.m. tonight, people should use plenty of water on long showers, car washes, and clothes washing.
"To flush the system in your house, basically," said West Palm Beach spokesman Chase Scott.
The boil water alert Friday was for its 125,000 utilities customers who live in the city of West Palm Beach, as well as in the town of Palm Beach and the town of South Palm Beach on the barrier island. But residents across Palm Beach County who weren't sure of the target area jammed city phone lines.
Water samples from the town of Palm Beach came back negative for contamination, but the boil water order remains in effect, Scott said today.
An elusive source of human or animal waste is to blame, said Assistant City Administrator Ken Rearden. Water from 13 sites tested positive for fecal coliform, total coliform and E. coli bacteria, which could be coming from sewage or bird droppings, Steve Schmidt, laboratory manager for West Palm Beach Public Utilities, said at a news conference Saturday at the water plant on Banyan Boulevard.
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Doesn’t Paris Hilton have a house in West Palm Beach? That might explain things...
Heads up Rush.
West Palm Beach voter system cleansing underway, but boil water order continues
and I thought, "Man that will take a lot of hot water to clean out!"
Wonder if there is any coincidence with the two PB county commissioners and one WPB city commissioner who recently were sent to prison for fraud, accepting bribes, etc.
Used to live down there...got out three years ago...best thing I ever did.
New experts take fresh look at West Palm's water woes
By THOMAS R. COLLINS
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 05, 2007
WEST PALM BEACH — A team of county and university experts joined with the city Thursday in an all-out blitz to try to find the cause of a fecal bacteria outbreak that has the city entering a second frustrating week under a boil-water order.
Mayor Lois Frankel expressed hope that the order could be lifted as soon as Saturday - and maybe even late today for parts of the city where no bacteria has been found - depending on feedback from the Palm Beach County Health Department.
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