More evidence of the incompetence of State and City Government is that they still haven't lifted the Boil Water Advisory as of Tuesday morning. There's no evidence that a new test has come back positive; they just havent gotten around to testing it yet. Tests from Sunday Afternoon won't be available until Tuesday Afternoon.
Are you kidding me? You have an entire city boiling water because you can't do a bacterial test in less than 2 days? How do you spell INCOMPETENCE?
Note to the City
Nobody reads the Sun Sentinel anymore; it's 2015. How about informing ALL of the news agencies about a public health warning? There's nothing on broward.org, and the TV station's web sites are a day old on the info.
The Sun-Sentinel now requires you to sign up to read their stinking web site (unless you know the secondary addresses), so they're not really interested in reporting the news anymore. It's now one of those web sites that you scan by in search results; like yelp, tripadvisor and open table.
It's time for EVERYONE to abandon the idea that if you send something to the newspaper, people will read it. The city needs to stop operating in 1995 mode and update their procedures. Most people didn't even find out about this until 2 days in, which means that if it was a real public health issue, 1000s of people would be sick by the time they found out they were supposed to boil their water.
Notice on Sunday August 9
The city of Fort Lauderdale has issued a boil water alert for city residents and businesses.
The city said a sample from a ground water well tested positive for E. coli, a fecal indicator. A finished water sample taken from the Fiveash Treatment Plant tested negative.
As a precaution, the city said the well has been immediately taken offline and is being flushed, re-tested, and re-evaluated. As of 12pm Monday, the order had not yet been lived.
Areas covered are:
City of Fort Lauderdale
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
Oakland Park
Port Everglades Authority
Village of Sea Ranch Lakes
WIlton Manors,
Parts of Davie and Tamarac
The county is advising that you not use water without boiling it.
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