The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - AIT - rere orreue MacKay’s Funeral Service Ltd. Serving Terrace, Kitimat, Smithers & Prince Rupert Water warning back in place By JENNIFER LANG A BOIL water advisory for Thornhill bench residents was put back into effect two weekends ago after additional water samples turned up evidence of con- tamination. Woodland Utilities was not required to go door-to- door when the advisory went back into effect, said Russell Seltenrich, an En- vironmental Health Officer with the Northern Health Authority in Terrace. The company operates a private water system that serves about 550 homes in Thornhill, Those customers have been under a boil water advisory since June 20, when tests showed there was a chance of a health risk after the utility switched water supplics 10 days earlier. The company did “an extraordinarily good job” of informing customers about the original advi- sory, he said. The advisory was lifted July 4 after three consecu- live water samples showed no contamination, Selten- rich said. A second boil water ad- visory was issued two weekends ago after some subsequent samples showed contamination. The company notified customers through media reports and by pulting up notices in public places and on telephone polls, he said. Individual notification of customers is not re- quired by law, he added. It’s not clear where the contaminalion was coming from, Seltenrich said, add- ing a number of factors could be at work. “Bacteria aren’t distri- buted evenly through a water system,” he said. Cross connections in- side people’s homes like telephone shower heads or tap sprayers that were left dangling ;in tubs or sinks full of water could be an- other explanation. Woodland. Utilities was expected to continue its program of disinfecting and flushing the water lines over the weekend. Meanwhile, the second- ary water source that is believed to have caused the contamination has now been completely severed from the system. A deep source well re- mains the only source of water in place for the Woodlands (Utilities syS- tem. Environmental health officials are also satisfied with an agreement de- Paper wins awards THE TERRACE Standard has won two national awards for news coverage last year. The paper placed third in the Best Business Wri- ting category for coverage of the Skeena Celjulose crisis last fall by reporter Jeff Nagel. The Standard also took third in the Environment Canada Award for Excel- lence in Environmental Writing. That was for Nagel’s stories Jast sum- mer on the internal debate within the provincial gov- emment over whether ta ban grizzly bear hunting. The awards were an+ nounced July 6 as part of the 2002 Better Newspaper Competition of the Cana- dian Community Newspa- per Association. It’s the second year in a row the Terrace Standard has won awards at the na- tional level. The awards come in ad- dition to several more the newspaper teceived earlier this year from the B.C. and Yukon Community News- paper Association and from Carlboo Press. signed to prevent the same thing from happening again, So far, no cases of ill- ness have been finked to the water supply. .A number of people ex- periencing gastrointestinal illness have been reported, including some children who contracted a viral ill- ness, but so far no proven link to the water has been made, “We just don’t know,” Seltenrich said. The company and the Northern Health Authority have already come under | criticism from some custo- mers who say they’re un- happy with the way the or- iginal June 20 boil water advisory was publicized. 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