Keep the Water on the Boil, with no change in Prince Rupert water advisory

Some Prince Rupert residents will have to continue 
boiling their water with the latest update indicating No change to
the ongoing advisory

Heading into the Labour Day weekend, many Prince Rupert residents will have to keep the roiling boil going, with the City of Prince Rupert extending the Water Advisory for the city's drinking water supply that was first put in place on August 17th.

There's not much to share from the City's update, with but one line providing the status of the latest advisory posted to the city's website on Friday afternoon.

No new information related towards any anticipated end to the advisory was included in today's notes; nor was any documentation on the status of any further testing of the water supply from Shawatlans Lake made part of today's relay.

The near month long requirement for some city residents to boil their water following an extensive rainfall event of mid August, was put in place following the guidance of Northern Health's Drinking Water Officer.

 

Northern Health recommends that children, pregnant women, the elderly and persons with weakened immune systems drink boiled water at this time.

While the days of notice now number nineteen and counting, the latest incident to impact on the city's drinking water supply did not have much of a ripple for City Council members. 

The nature of the ongoing Advisory did not make for any comment from the city's elected officials during the only public Council session for August on the 24th.

It also hasn't made for much of a theme for the range of social media streams that the city offers to the public for frequent and ongoing communication on key issues.

You can review the current status update page here.

Should there be a change to the ongoing advisory you can access the city website here, as well as the City's Facebook page, along with that of Mayor Lee Brain.

Those who have signed up for the city's mobile app program will also receive any updates through that program.

You can review the current status update page here.

Update: In a short post to the City's Facebook page, the City noted that recent testing had indicated some improvement to the water supply, but not enough to lift the advisory.

Notes on the ongoing water situation can be examined from our archive page here.

Some notes from past City Council discussion themes can be reviewed here.