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Another day without (tap) water
The boil water advisory continues in Hamilton today. Final bacteria samples were taken yesterday at 4 p.m., but samples have to be given 24 hours to culture or not culture. At which point, the Ohio EPA can give the city an all clear.
This means that businesses are again using bottled water and pop during the lunch rush. Personally, I’ve mistakenly drank the water several times. Though, City Manager Mark Brandenburger assures me that any risk of illness is very minimal and I haven’t come down with anything just yet.
If any readers have become ill from mistakenly drinking the water, I would like to hear about it. Though, I imagine that because all preliminary bacteria tests on the water have come back negative, the worst Hamilton’s residents have experienced from this debacle is some rattled nerves.
We’ll update you here as soon as the boil advisory is lifted.
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By Jim
April 2, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
Can anyone explain why it took nine hours for the Journal-News to send the email that we had a boil advisory? Can anyone explain why it didn’t rate the front page of the online site until even later? Can anyone explain why TV-Hamilton still doesn’t have a notice on it? Thankfully, the Cincinnati Enquirer site told me earlier….By Rich
April 2, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
My employer was quite lax in sending an alert to all employees about the water main break. Our Security office apparently received an e-mail from the City of Hamilton just before 6 AM, but neglected to send a “don’t drink the water” warning to employees until 4:30 PM, over 10 hours later! By that time, all the first shift workers had gone home, along with many of the salaried workers. So it goes…