A water boil advisory is in effect for areas of West Philly after the failure of a pumping station. Water pressure has been restored, but the city said the lack of pressure could have allowed bacteria and other disease-causing organisms into the pipes.
A water boil advisory is in effect for areas of West Philadelphia Monday following the failure of a pumping station.
Water pressure has since been restored, but the city said the lack of pressure could have allowed bacteria and other disease-causing organisms into the water pipes. Rademaekers said water boil advisories are uncommon in Philadelphia. “There’s no real precedent for this in Philly — it’s common in different places around the country, but no one in recent memory here has had to do a notification like this,” he said.
“We don’t want to create a panic,” Rademaekers said. “This is such a different situation compared to what happened on the Delaware. It’s really just one pressure district that’s impacted, we know what we’re dealing with, and the overall risk of illness is very low.”
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