"Unsafe Water, Do Not Drink, Do Not Boil" - Toledo, Ohio
In Toledo, Ohio, Residents Warned Water Unsafe to Drink
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Hundreds of thousands of people who receive water from the city of Toledo, Ohio, are being warned not to drink the water from their taps, the city said on its Facebook page early Saturday.
The warning posted around 2 a.m. was followed up with another posting before 10 a.m. saying that the city was working with Lucas County Emergency Management to come up with a plan to address how to deal with the water problems. City officials didn't immediately return requests for comment.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich declared a state of emergency in two Toledo area counties, enabling members of the National Guard and Department of Transportation to begin water deliveries to the affected area, said Chris Abbruzzese, a spokesman at the joint incident command center in the state capital of Columbus.
"It is understandable that there is a huge degree of public concern, but we would advise everyone to remain calm, an alternative water supply and a distribution system will be announced as quickly as possible," the city said.
Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins said on his Twitter feed Saturday the city strongly recommends all restaurants to close operations temporarily over the water issue. He also said that there are no reports of water-related illnesses. Results of water testing done by the federal Environmental Protection Agency are expected around 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The city said chemists testing water at Toledo's Collins Park Water Treatment Plant had two sample readings for microcystin that exceeded standards for drinking water. The Collins Park Water Treatment plant produces potable drinking water for 500,000 people in the greater Toledo metropolitan area, according to the city's website.
This means that all fresh produce needs to be thrown away, anything that came into contact with tap water needs to be decontaminated, no showers, no cooking, all ice thrown away, no swimming and much more.
This means that all fresh produce needs to be thrown away, anything that came into contact with tap water needs to be decontaminated, no showers, no cooking, all ice thrown away, no swimming and much more.
Wow. I never thought of it that way. At least you can still pee and poop.