The City of Eminence announced a boil advisory for residence and businesses north of the Jacks Fork River. This is because of maintenance being done to repair a main line breakage. Anytime maintenance or repair is done on a water line, it could cause possible water contamination, requiring the need for everyone to boil their water. Water should be boiled until further notice, i.e. until after samples have been tested and safe results are received from the Department of Natural Resources.
To ensure the safety of the water, customers should boil water vigorously for three (3) minutes prior to use for cooking or drinking. Customers also can disinfect food contact surfaces (dishes) by immersing them for at least one (1) minute in clean water containing at least fifty (50) parts per million (ppm) free chlorine. Adding one (1) teaspoon of unscented household chlorine bleach to each gallon of water (or 1.3 milliliters of bleach per liter of water) should result in a solution with more than fifty (50) parts per million (ppm) free chlorine, provided the water is free of hydrogen sulfide and significant levels of dissolved metallic and organic compounds.
