DDW-2025-000414

DRINKING WATER ORDER
Cornish Town water is contaminated with E. coli
BOIL YOUR WATER BEFORE USING
What happened?
THE BOIL ORDER IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS.
Our water system recently detected total coliform and E. coli bacteria. As our customers you have the right to know what happened and what we are doing to correct the situation.
Cornish Town was notified by our laboratory on January 7, 2025, that samples taken within the distribution system came back totalcoliform positive. We took repeat samples on January
9, 2025, and some of those samples also came back total coliform positive and one came back both total coliform and E. coli positive. After we were notified, we reached out to the Division
of Drinking Water and are putting this boil order in place until we can find and fix the problem that has occurred.
We take your health and the quality of our drinking water very seriously and we need to inform each of you of the situation. Since we do not collect total coliform and E. coli samples
every day, we wanted to let you be aware of the risk. Below is more information about the health impacts of E. coli found in drinking water. Please contact us if you have additional
questions. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
What is being done?
We are taking the following corrective actions:
We are increasing sampling for coliform bacteria to determine the source of the contamination.
We will be working closely with the Division of Drinking Water in the coming weeks.
We can provide bottled water for all homes in the isolated area.
We will inform you when tests show no bacteria, and you no longer need to boil your water. Test results cannot be processed over the weekend, but we will submit new samples on Monday,
January 13, 2025.
What should the consumer do?
DO NOT DRINK THE WATER WITHOUT BOILING IT FIRST. Bring all water to a boil, let it boil for one minute, and let it cool before using, or use bottled water. Boiled or bottled water should
be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes, and food preparation until further notice. Boiling kills bacteria and other organisms in the water.
E. coli are bacteria whose presence indicates that the water may be contaminated with human or animal wastes. Microbes in these wastes can cause diarrhea, cramps,
nausea, headaches, or other symptoms. They may pose a special health risk for infants, young children, some of the elderly and people with severely compromised immune systems.
The symptoms above are not caused only by organisms in drinking water. If you experience any of these symptoms and they persist, you may want to seek medical advice. People at increased
risk should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers.
For more information, please contact Matt Leak at 435-757-6726 or [e-mail].
General guidelines on ways to lessen the risk of infection by microbes are available from the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1(800) 426-4791 Division website: drinkingwater.utah.gov.
Please share this information with all the other people who drink this water, especially those who may not have received this notice directly (for example, people in apartments, nursing
homes, schools, and businesses). You can do this by posting this notice in a public place or distributing copies by hand or mail.
This notice is being sent to you by Cornish Town Water System ID#: UTAH03005Date distributed:January 10, 2025