Almost half of the residents in Santa Paula can not use their faucet water for ingesting or cooking due to a attainable contamination at a metropolis reservoir.
Metropolis officers warned the affected residents that they need to use solely bottled water for ingesting, brushing their tooth, making ice and making ready meals after a reported break-in on the metropolis’s foremost reservoir storage, officers mentioned in a information launch on Monday. These residents must also stick with bottled water for child components and different dehydrated meals and drinks.
Residents mustn’t try and deal with the water by boiling, freezing, filtering, including chlorine or different disinfectants or permitting the water to face to attempt to make it secure.
Town will present secure ingesting water from its foremost remedy plant to these affected by the scenario. Residents are suggested to carry their very own containers to select up water.
“Our prime precedence is the well being and security of our residents, and we’ll present common updates as extra data turns into accessible,” town mentioned.
On Monday afternoon, workers on the metropolis reservoir found that somebody had crossed a safety perimeter on the storage web site. Metropolis workers instantly shut off the principle water provide from the water tank that gives a portion of town’s water to forestall the unfold of any potential contamination, officers mentioned.
Santa Paula cops arrived on the reservoir to analyze stories of a attainable trespasser. When officers searched the realm they discovered clothes and private objects close by, in accordance with officers. Whereas there have been no clear indicators of a visual contaminant within the reservoir, metropolis officers and the California State Water Sources Management Board issued a preliminary “Do Not Drink” discover for about half of all residents within the Ventura County metropolis.
Water checks for contaminants may take 5 days, officers mentioned. Within the meantime, town issued the warning and positioned different restrictions as a precautionary measure till it’s positive town’s water is secure to drink. Town’s common water provide supply will not be affected, and residents can use their water for bathing.
