||| FROM EASTSOUND WATER |||
Eastsound Water is advising all water customers in the Doe Bay/Olga water system to boil their drinking water starting at midnight tonight due to very low storage tank supply levels and potential depressurizing of our distribution lines. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) has been notified and Eastsound Water is working closely with the Office of Drinking Water to monitor the system.
This boil water advisory will remain in effect until further notice. No other water systems that we manage are affected by this outage event.
The extreme freezing temperatures and this follow-on storm has led to a mile of frozen raw water supply. This supply line has not been responding to the many attempts to get water flowing again by our team of dedicated Water Operators. The Eastsound Water Operator staff have been diligently problem-solving this issue for many days now, and little can be done at this point until the weather breaks, and the raw water line begins to thaw again.
The boil water advisory includes several precautionary steps for customers. These include using purchased bottled water or boiled water for drinking, brushing teeth, dishwashing, preparing food, and making ice. Water should come to a rolling boil for one minute, then cool to an appropriate temperature before using.
The advisory will remain in effect until Eastsound Water and DOH are confident the water is safe. When satisfactory results are reported, customers will be notified that the advisory has been lifted.
If you have questions, please call our office at (360) 376-2127.
The boil water alert does not include the Doe Bay Water System.
It does include Olga Water System.
Wanda Evans
Board President
This is NOT a good way to announce this event! I saw this on Facebook but what about the population who doesn’t use social media or read the Orcasonian? Telephone tree calls should be put into effect! If you need volunteers to help get the word out, count me in.
The Orcasonian is one of multiple avenues that Olga Water and Eastsound water us to notify members of system issues. Thank you for your concern.
http://Www.olgawater.com
Forgot to mention most important point: check on your neighbors as I did and make sure they are aware of the situation
I called Eastsound Water. ONLY Olga water system users are affected by the boil water advisory. Doe Bay water system is NOT affected. The actual press release they sent out also states that it’s only Olga water.
Dear friends,
It has been too many days to count now that the Eastsound Water staff has been in emergency response mode – 24-hours a day. All-in-all, this set of storms has been the worst in recent memory from a water management view. As a result, we have been shutting off dozens of customer meters, mitigating property damage and trying to keep water flowing to all users across the island within the systems that we serve.
Your heroes are out there again today working general emergency response as this last freeze thaws, but also specifically on the Olga Water system who’s water supply has frozen solid. As a result, their storage tank has drawn down close to the bottom. As a precaution and a requirement, we sent out a “boil notice” to the Olga Water Users system.
We sent this “boil notice” directly to the customer of the Olga Water Users system. As an additional precaution we posted this same notice to The Orcasonian. Somewhere in translation, The Orcasonian added Doe Bay to the notice. We want to inform everyone that there is only an active boil notice within the Olga Water Users system, and a 21 home area in the Eastsound Water system on top of Buck Mountain.
There is no boil notice active in Doe Bay.
Thank you for your help with correcting this information.
Dan Burke
General Manager
I’m from Olga and we still don’t have water :(