Glendale lifts boil order after tests; council says it will file complaint over regional lab inconsistencies

The Glendale Town Council announced on Dec. 18 that it is lifting a boil-water order after follow-up tests returned clean results, but council members said they will pursue a formal complaint over inconsistent lab reporting by the regional health department.

A council speaker described a sequence of tests that at times showed total coliform or E. coli positives and at other times returned clean results. "I'm also fighting on the complaint against Southwest Health Department for their Incompetent," the speaker said, adding that he was in touch with state-level regulators in Salt Lake for guidance on filing an official complaint if subsequent tests remain clean.

Council members said earlier inconsistent results caused uncertainty for residents; speakers described taking multiple samples, considering sending samples to an alternate laboratory (in Saint George) for confirmation, and expressing concern about human error at some test facilities. The transcript records references to prior similar incidents affecting Glendale and a neighboring system three years earlier.

The council said town staff had treated the system twice and that recent follow-up samples came back clean. Officials said they would post official boil-order lift notices and had already posted informal notices to social media, and they urged residents to follow any posted public-safety guidance.

No formal action or vote was recorded on the complaint in the meeting; council members said they would seek procedural guidance from state regulators and pursue a complaint if warranted.