Mendocino County Public Health is urging residents and businesses west of Highway 1 in the town of Mendocino to test their water following a state-issued boil water advisory affecting three local businesses.
In a press release issued Tuesday, the California State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Drinking Water said it had served citations and compliance orders to the businesses, prompting the boil water notice. While the specific businesses weren’t named, all are located west of Highway 1 — the area now under heightened scrutiny.
Dr. Charles Evans, the county’s Deputy Public Health Officer, recommended that anyone in the affected area have their water tested “as a precaution.” The county’s Environmental Health team is actively working with impacted businesses and offering support to others that may be at risk.
Public Health officials will be on-site at Harvest Market at Mendosa’s (10501 Lansing Street, Mendocino) from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30, and Thursday, May 1, to answer questions and provide information to concerned residents.
County officials say they’re continuing to coordinate with the state to monitor the situation and will release updates as needed.
Residents west of Highway 1 are urged to boil tap water before drinking, brushing teeth, or using it for cooking until further notice.
I have more information concerning this article. It’s a fear mongering article with not actual information about the water crisis that was issued. I own one of the businesses and would like to discuss this so you can get your facts straight.
Feel free to email me at matthewplafever@gmail.com or call/text at (707)267-1799.
Julian,
Protecting the health of the community comes far before protecting the integrity of your business.
Also, one without a degree in water table engineering, or California water law, could be deemed foolish to try to challenge the lab test results of the ground water in that area.
There are no aqua-firs in the drought stricken tourist utopia of Mendo. The towns water supply is dependent upon runoff and stillwater that gravity feed to the ocean, along the way, picking up volatiles, & contaminants that people daily dump down their drains, Between bad septic systems from the ground constantly shifting, the worsening drought, and the towns economy pretty much fully surviving off of tourism at this point, ignoring the obvious signs of decay could be an imminent means for collapse of the entire community.
This is not fear-mongering, Julian. It is science, & honestly survival is dependent on one’s environment. If the environment is trashed, what is there left to survive on?
To ignore something you know nothing about will not make it go away, only cause it to grow. Now let’s all do something about it.
Whatever is going on is finely regulated, there is little by guess and by golly. Ask any licensed water operator, we take this all critically serious. The labs must be performed in a licensed lab and every aspect is controlled. Making a mistake can kill 100s of people.
Any updates MendoFever could provide on this topic would be most appreciated in the Mendocino community. Many questions and concerns remain unanswered; there is much confusion. A critical question is whether residents’ water tests results will remain private – or whether they will be entered into state, county, district, or contracted databases in order to bolster, or at least heavily influence, the argument that a highly controversial centralized water system currently under study is warranted.
Further, if the 20,500 plus gallons of released water (the total from three businesses has not been made public) was in fact, treated and safe, then one has to question whether there have been violation(s) of Article X, Section 2, of the California Constitution (1928), the bedrock ‘Reasonable Use Doctrine’ of state water law, in authorizing the water to be dumped. Per the doctrine, the waste of California water resources must be prevented; its directives apply to all water rights and all agencies.
Don’t eat the ice -just like in Acapulco- and you’ll be fine.