Tech failure results in PCB water boil advisory

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WMBB) — All residents east of Richard Jackson Boulevard in Panama City Beach had been underneath a boil water discover this weekend.

 A pc {hardware} malfunction brought about a pump station to lose stress for almost an hour Friday morning.

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“At about 12:35 in the morning on this previous Friday the controller that controls certainly one of our excessive service pump stations on the east finish of our system, the comptroller went flat,” Panama City Beach Assistant Director of Utilities Mark Shaeffer stated. 

Utility employees restored water stress inside an hour.

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But Florida’s Department of Health requires a boil water discover to be issued. 

“In the state of Florida, the Department of Health has standards for all water programs that in case your water system stress drops beneath 20 PSI, it’s a must to institute what’s referred to as a precautionary boil water protocol,” Shaeffer stated. 

Shaeffer stated the state does this to guard susceptible members of society. 

“People which can be on dialysis, organ transplant individuals, individuals with compromised immune programs, well being care amenities, anyone that may that basically could be problematic if they’d, , unsatisfactory water high quality,” Shaeffer stated. 

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The metropolis can’t raise the boil water advisory till they run a number of acceptable micro organism checks. 

“You must take bacterial samples You must take two,” Shaeffer stated.  “They must be on successive days and so they can’t be lower than 6 hours aside.”

Then there’s a 24-hour incubation interval between the time the samples are taken and the checks. 

“You now have a 30-hour lag between when the occasion happens if you pattern,” Shaeffer stated.   “And when you’ll be able to really start to see when you can raise the precautionary boil water discover.”

While the town’s present water system is as much as requirements, Shaeffer stated they’re presently wanting into getting a extra fashionable system that’s outfitted with a backup chip that might stop the identical sort of failure in the longer term.  

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