JOYCE — A Clallam County health official said that nobody has become ill as a result of coliform bacteria in the Crescent Water Association system.
The system supplies water to 822 homes in the Joyce area and serves a population of more than 2,000 people.
Crescent Water users are urged to continue to boil water before using it.
Many residents are drinking bottled water.
“At the earliest, it will be late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning (before the boil notice will be lifted),” Clallam County Health Department Director Tania Busch-Weak said Friday.
Coliform is an “indicator” that other bacteria which can cause health problems could be present in the water, Busch-Weak said.
“It does not cause health problems, but it indicates other organisms that could,” she said.
The coliform is likely the result of leaves and other debris washing into the Lyre River, the water system’s source, due to recent rains, health officials said.
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