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A BOIL WATER NOTICE IS STILL IN
EFFECT AFTER A SEWER PIPE WAS
ACCIDENTALLY
CONNECTED TO THE WATER SYSTEM.
ROGERS LEARNED THIS ISN'T THE
FIRST
TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED IN THE
AREA.
In the Newman household,
Thursday morning was spent
"trying to get the stuff out,
put 'em up and we're taking
advantage of the time off that
we can deal
time with his kids, but he
"I was supposed to be at work
The culprit is in his faucet.
His neighborhood is under a boil
water notice,
Daphne East Elementary and
Daphne Middle.
schools. Yesterday, the
the
Sewer System accidentally
connected a sewer line to a
freshwater
"I think it's a screw-up. It
The Alabama
Department of Environmental
Management says the Baldwin
County Sewer
system did this another time,
around five years ago. An ADEM
company was fined $100,000 for
the incident.
Today, water officials scrambled
to fix the problem.
"This notice doesn't necessarily
mean the water is contaminated.
But officials say it should be
boiled as a precaution." Newman
says this has been
inconvenient, and it's not over.
Officials say both schools will
be closed tomorrow
too, so his wife will have to
take off work to watch the kids.
"with all the kids we have, it's
bad around here." Reporting in
Daphne, John Rogers, Fox10
News.
AN ADEM SPOKESMAN SAID THE WATER
IS BEING TESTED IN THE AREA...
AND A DECISION ON THE NOTICE IS