Post by Logan on Jun 20, 2016 2:11:24 GMT -6
Parts of Morgan, Lawrence Counties still under advisement not to drink tap water
For 17 days, roughly 35,000 people in Morgan and Lawrence Counties have been living under an advisement not to drink or cook with their tap water.
Two days a week Morgan County Emergency Management officials hand out some 30 pallets’ worth of bottled water to residents who were relying on water from their faucets.
“We run out pretty quickly on days we’re distributing,” said Jacob Crowell, Morgan County operations and planning emergency management specialist.
Crowell said the community appears divided over whether the relief water is necessary.
“You have a class of people who don’t care if there would be something wrong with the water, and then you’ve got people on the other side who are not going to use the water and don’t trust it,” he said. “I don’t believe it’s an emergency. But we are helping out the citizens of our county who feel like the water’s not safe.”
Read more: www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2016/06/18/parts-morgan-lawrence-counties-still-under-advisement-not-drink-tap-water/86037980/
For 17 days, roughly 35,000 people in Morgan and Lawrence Counties have been living under an advisement not to drink or cook with their tap water.
Two days a week Morgan County Emergency Management officials hand out some 30 pallets’ worth of bottled water to residents who were relying on water from their faucets.
“We run out pretty quickly on days we’re distributing,” said Jacob Crowell, Morgan County operations and planning emergency management specialist.
Crowell said the community appears divided over whether the relief water is necessary.
“You have a class of people who don’t care if there would be something wrong with the water, and then you’ve got people on the other side who are not going to use the water and don’t trust it,” he said. “I don’t believe it’s an emergency. But we are helping out the citizens of our county who feel like the water’s not safe.”
Read more: www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2016/06/18/parts-morgan-lawrence-counties-still-under-advisement-not-drink-tap-water/86037980/