Huntington County town avoids using water after finding high levels of vinyl chloride

Huntington County town avoids using water after finding high levels of vinyl chloride

Andrews residents showed up to to the town's municipal building waiting to pick up water bottles after the town recently experienced water contamination yet again.

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Water is a necessity for all of us, but what if yours wasn't safe to drink?well a huntington county town is experiencing water contamination yet again.

Fox 55's mallory beard tells us how the town leaders plan to tackle the problem.

3 the water here in andrews isn safe to drink.

John harshbarger//andrews town council rese don want them to drink it.

We don want them to cook with it.

They can do their dishes, they can do their laundry.

They can take warm showers but not long hot showers and as we get additional information wel update that.

The problem goes back decades.

An emergency motion filed by the town friday says united technologies caused the contamination and was supposed to fix it.

Or approximatele 27 years, we had some contamination in our ground water and there is an airstripper that is supposed to get all of that contamination out and get it below the allowable mcls.

Mcls are the maximum contaminant levels set by the us environmental protection agency.

But harshbarger says the airstripper recently stopped working and vinyl chloride has again been found in t water system.

E hope to get this soon.

In the meantime wel be providing water for the residents.

With the indiana department of environmental management today so they could test the contamination levels.

After living in the neighborhood for over four decades, yake subd richard widelski says wat r contamination isn new to hhere was .

Coliform bacteria getting into our water systems because every house had their own septic system and every house had their own well.

Says he and his neighbors had to find separate options to purify their water because of costo when we got rid of the septic system we had to have a place to take it and andrews was the closest area to us that would take our waste water and waste material.

Andrews was expereincing contamination again, widelski hope quick he town recoe ry.

Sure they working on it to upgrade their equipment to do a better job of filtering it so they can get rid of it.

Can return to daily life with cleaight now i don know exactly what happe ing but i sure they all concerned.

I'm mallory beard fox 55 news.

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