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All households receiving water from the city of Bloomington are under a precautionary boil water order after the city utility violated a drinking water standard on Friday. The boil water advisory ...
More than 3,300 Monroe County households and businesses are under an advisory to boil their water because of a water main break near Griffy Lake.The break also means e-learning days for two local ...
A nationwide initiative by the Environmental Protection Agency will check peoples' plumbing for lead.
A boil water advisory usually lasts up to 24-48 hours, but sometimes more. [1] BWA's are typically issued when monitoring of water being served to consumers detects E. coli or other microbiological indicators of sewage contamination. Another reason for a BWA is a failure of distribution system integrity evidenced by a loss of system pressure.
There were water line breaks in many areas, and power disruptions affected water treatment plants in parts of the region that forced several cities—including Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Abilene, Austin, Killeen and Arlington, Texas; and Shreveport, Louisiana—to enact residential boil-water orders (i.e., to boil drinking water to kill ...
The levees were sized to hold back up to 17.5 feet (5.3 m), of water; they held back the initial surge, but then they were breached in several areas by the 22 feet (6.7 m), surge. The Parish's two shelters at Chalmette High School and St. Bernard High School suffered considerable damage with flooding. Chalmette High lost much of its roof, and ...
In the wake of Hurricane Francine, Terrebonne Parish has been approved for five distribution centers by the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. The centers will ...
One person was killed in a flooded bayou in Terrebonne Parish, [76] and a wind-related death was reported near Houma. [77] Two other deaths took place in a car crash in the evacuation phase in Iberville Parish, [78] and two other storm-related deaths in Jefferson Davis Parish that were ruled as deaths by natural causes. [77]