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Fort Pierce Water Safe To Drink

Culinary water users in the Fort Pierce area of St. George now have the go ahead to use tap water without first boiling. The boil warning went out Sunday after a routine sample was found to contain fecal coliform bacteria.

Water managers are still not certain from where the contamination came. The incident appears to be isolated.

City crews replaced the sampling station and chlorinated and flushed the distribution system.

Scott Taylor is with St. George City, and suggests users also do a flush.

“I would suggest you turn on your faucets, and run them for 10 or 15 minutes, just to dry any water through the system that may still be in there,” Taylor said.

Two clean tests are required in order to give the all-clear, and so far at other sites around the city there have been no other indications of contamination.

“We went to fourteen other sites and pulled samples from fire hydrants,” Taylor said. “They all came back good, so that kind of gave us a level of confidence that we are looking at one specific sample location that’s giving us the problem.”

Managers are not ruling out the possibility that it was simply the sample that somehow became contaminated, not the water itself.