Fayette still under boil water order
FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ)
The city of Fayette was placed under a boil water order on Feb. 24 and as of Friday, March 3, it has not been lifted.
The city posted on Facebook on Feb. 27 that it conducted a monthly BACT sample and it came back clean. During an inspection with the Department of Natural Resources found feathers in the overflow pipe screen. The city received the report on Feb. 24.
ABC 17 News called city utilities Friday afternoon and an automated response said the order was still in place.
The city says it called companies to clean the inside of its water towers and that the earliest any of them could start was Monday.
“The boil water order will not be rescinded until the storage facility is removed from service, cleaned, repaired, and disinfected by methods acceptable to the Department of Natural Resource,” the post says.
A DNR spokesman said in an email that several steps have to be completed for a boil water order can be lifted:
1. “Within seven (7) calendar days of the date of this letter but sooner if possible, the public water supply must isolate the storage facility from the distribution system and drain the storage facility. This must be done in a manner that will allow continued adequate water service to be provided to all water customers of the system. Interrupting water service to customers served by the storage facility while draining and cleaning it is not acceptable.”
2. “Before the storage facility can be returned to service it must cleaned and pressure washed to remove all sediment and contamination.”
3. “Before the storage facility can be returned to service it must be inspected by a qualified inspector to determine how the contamination got into the tank and a written report with photographs and recommendations for correcting the problem submitted to the system and the Department.”
4. "If possible, make temporary repairs to the facility to allow it to be returned to service that are acceptable to the Department.”
5. “Within sixty (60) days of the date of the storage inspection have permanent or long term repairs made to storage facility to prevent future contamination that are acceptable to the Department.”
6. “If it is not possible to make temporary repairs to the facility keep the storage facility out of service until permanent or long term repairs can be made to prevent future contamination.”
7. “Once repairs are made but before the storage facility can be returned to service it must be disinfected by methods acceptable to the Department. The preferred method is to spray the entire interior of the tank with a strong chlorine solution using a power washer. After disinfection the strongly chlorinated water in the storage facility must be diluted with system water until the chlorine residual is no less than 2.0 mg/l and no more than 4.0 mg/l free chlorine.”
8. “After chlorine residual in the storage facility in the tank is diluted the entire distribution system served by the facility must be flushed and tested to assure that at least 0.5 mg/l of free chlorine residual is provided throughout the distribution system.”
9. "Before the boil water order will be rescinded samples for bacteria analysis must be collected from the water in the tank and tested for coliform bacteria by a laboratory certified by the Department. If the system does not practice continuous disinfection at least one sample per day must be collected on two consecutive days. If the system does practice continuous disinfection the water in the tank must contain at least 1.0 mg/l free available chlorine or 2.0 mg/l chloramines and one sample must be collected and tested for coliform bacteria. All samples must test negative for coliform bacteria or the disinfection and sampling process must be repeated until all samples test negative.”
