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City of Monroe system-wide boil-water notice prompted county response; environmental health issued temporary permit suspensions
Summary
Union County environmental health described rapid notification and inspection work after the City of Monroe’s system-wide boil-water notice, including outreach to nearly 500 regulated facilities and staged lifting of suspensions once zones were cleared.
Tracy Collie, Union County public-health director, briefed the meeting on the city of Monroe’s system-wide boil-water notice and the county’s response.
Collie said the county was notified by the North Carolina Division of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the state public-health agency on the morning of Aug. 13 that Monroe had an initial boil-water advisory; an advisory becomes a notice when confirmation sampling finds contamination. At 9:41 p.m. the county received a confirmation sample showing total coliform and…
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