UPDATED with map - Precautionary water boil order for Janesville's East side.
From the City of Janesville:
During routine water supply testing, the City of Janesville detected Fecal Coliform/E. Coli bacteria in the north pressure zone east of the Rock River that supplies water to the area east of Randall Avenue; and north of Mt. Zion Avenue and Black Bridge Road. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has required the City of Janesville to issue a Precautionary Boil/Bottle Water Advisory for this part of the City. Click here for a map of the affected area.
Ice, food, and any beverages prepared with this unsafe water must be discarded. You should boil or use commercially bottled water for drinking, food preparation, and making ice. If you boil water, the water should be heated to a rolling boil for at least ONE minute before use. Ice should be made from boiled or bottled water. A fact sheet regarding this precautionary boil/bottle water advisory can be found here.
The Water Utility has already begun work to remedy this situation by increasing chlorine in distribution water; flushing water mains; and taking follow-up bacteria tests. The Water Utility will inform the public once the water supply testing shows that Fecal Coliform/E. Coli bacteria is no longer present.
Questions regarding this precautionary boil/bottle water advisory should be directed to the Janesville Water Utility at 755-3115; Tim Banwell of the Rock County Health Department at 757-5441; or Stephen Ales, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources at 608-275-3311.
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By GAZETTE STAFF 05/15/09
May 9, 2009 at 6:22 a.m.
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I have heard from a good source who has a friend employed with the city, That they (the city) knew about this one day before they reported it to the public. Could this be a cover-up or just bad judgement on the city's part ?
May 8, 2009 at 5:29 p.m.
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It also affects animals, I checked with our Vet, so don't give tap water to your pets.
May 8, 2009 at 4:58 p.m.
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I work at Orange Julius in the mall and the board of health notified the store and also the mall management sent out a flier with the info on it.. lots of the business are going to sam's club to get pop and ice and stuff like that so that they can still serve food and pop.
May 8, 2009 at 4:44 p.m.
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If they just tested the water, how long has this been going on??? How often do they test the water??
May 8, 2009 at 4:18 p.m.
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yes milton avenue businesses are affected. That is why blackbridge was listed separate from mt. zion. Depending on what side of milton avenue those are the roads as the starting point going north and east.
May 8, 2009 at 4:13 p.m.
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Looks like I was on the same page as ammfrm. Sorry for the dupe.
May 8, 2009 at 4:12 p.m.
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Would that include the restaurants east of Milton ave, north of Black Bridge Rd?
May 8, 2009 at 4:11 p.m.
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I did just talk to the health department because we are an affected business- the area does go north and east to affect Milton avenue all the way out to Rotamer Road.
Yes a map would be very nice.
May 8, 2009 at 4:10 p.m.
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Where is the map? The Gazette is so bad at giving half of a story, how about you try getting good at all of the story.How many years has this paper been published?
May 8, 2009 at 4:04 p.m.
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yes a map would have been nice. How did this crud get into the water supply? The bottled water industry? Terrorists? Heroin Junkies? Maybe its from the body waste from the 5 cases of 'swine flu' in rock county...
May 8, 2009 at 3:56 p.m.
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Its afternoon where's the map of the affected areas? By the way Mt. Zion and Black Bridge run paralell so this article is hard to figure out the areas, and how far east of Randall? I'm sure it will be more clear once you get the map, maybe you should have waited until you had all your facts and info.
May 8, 2009 at 3:24 p.m.
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Will the west side need to Boil their water also?
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