Most homes on St. George are still under a boil notice, but they do have running water again after a weeks-long outage.
On Oct. 22, the water pressure in St. George — a community of about 35 in the Pribilofs — suddenly dropped, and the water became unfit to drink.
She said supplies of bottled water went fast. Some homes were unaffected, but most had to haul 5-gallon buckets of water from the public safety building to their homes to flush toilets and mop floors.“Trying to find your friend’s house that has a good supply of running water so I can borrow their shower to bathe my family,” she said.
Mark Merculief, the mayor of St. George, said the problem was a mystery until Nov. 16, when water engineers arrived to track it down.When the crew dug into the ground, they were shocked at what they found — a clean break in the pipe that was right on top of a huge rock. “The way the break was, you couldn’t have a cleaner cut go through,” he said. “We thought, ‘Wow, it wouldn’t take much to break this with the amount of stress this was under.’”The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a boil water notice. Cindy Christian, a drinking water program manager for DEC, said it takes time to lift an order.
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