*LOL* Good one. He later changed his name to William Monbouquette.
(P.S. I think it was in 1962.)

Who?!!!

Is he that guy who pitched a no-hitter against the White Sox in 1963?

To boil, or not to boil: that is the question.
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous
fecal coliform/E. coli bacteria, or
to take arms against a sea of (shinola),
and by Boiling end them.
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Okay, very few people will get this but I couldn’t resist. My apologies to William Shakespeare.

does this mean i can't wash my face cause doesn't fecal matter cause pink eye? does everyone in janesville now need to be concerned of pink eye outbreak also.

Perhaps now all of those who complain about all of the benefits of the eastside can find a touch of happiness?

I wonder why my emergency weather radio did not go off for this? There is a setting for boil water warning. Why not use a reverse 911 to notify affected residents even if the county controls 911??? I was on my third glass of water when I logged onto the gazette yesterday at 4:00 and found the article. No wonder we have all felt icky the last couple of days.

My daughter and her 4 children have been so sick they could hardly get out of bed. I'm talking about severe diarrhea and fever. Yesterday my daughter could barely get out of bed from being so week from constant diarrhea. First we thought it was the swine flu because the whole family was effected so quickly! This is just ridiculous that this had to happen!! What can they do now that they all have become effected???

According to The City of Janesville, there has been no change in the status. The 24-hour test results will be available AFTER 1:30 p.m. It will be posted on The Gazette & City website, as well as on WCLO.

Rock County operates the 911 system, not the city of Janesville.

I found out about the boil water warning while watching channel 5 news at 6:00 pm last night. I think the city should forget about building bike tunnels and rebuilding the ice arena and get a reverse 911 system where thousands of residents can be alerted at once,also lets get the City Utilities Director a computer and a program so he can see instantly when the last checks were made, all 60 or 70 per month as he says, each one should be on record.

outbackXT:

My understanding is the tests actually take 24 hours. Results for the samples collected on May 7 were available May 8 (Friday). The results for the five additional tests taken Friday are expected Saturday afternoon.

Beth Wheelock

I've been paying a ton of attention to this advisory and it seems like I'm the only one who noticed they found the E.Coli in our water on 5/7/09 but we were not notified until 3PM 5/8/09... Just thought some of you might find that interesting, thanks Janesville for being on top of this, or NOT!

Hopefully the children who drank water out of drinking fountains at schools in the affected area today will not get sick. I worked in an eastside school this afternoon and was not told of any E. Coli in the water alert. However, if announcements were not being made until about 3pm, then that makes sense why I was unaware of it at school this afternoon. (In fact, I didn't become aware of this until about 10:30pm, luckily I do not live in an affected area). I just hope no children get sick from drinking water at school throughout the day today.

The city of Janesville website has an area you can sign up for email updates. I got my first email about 3pm today. I went to WalMart at 8pm tonight and they were just removing the lettuce and cilantro from the shelves that were sprayed with their automatic watering system. As a business I thought they should be more aware of the situation.

Interesting that this would happen now. At the last council meeting, Dan made a presentation, recommending a new 7.1 million dollar water tower on the NE side - because the public is at risk of microbes in the water if a main breaks. I don't see anything concerning a water main break. The earlier article on this website states "The city does not have confirmation that the test result is final. The city will conduct five other tests related to the one positive test, and the results will be available Saturday afternoon. Lynch expects those five tests will come back negative, but because there is one indication of E. Coli, the city wants to err on the side of caution."

Don't panic about the E Coli - panic about the 7.1 million dollar water tower bill!

It is bad when I find out this from reading my friend's posts on Facebook! So all day my 4 children under age 9 and I have been drinking this crap. So, we'll keep our fingers crossed and since we are the last house in the city ask our neighbors(who are Harmony Township) if we can get a pitcher of water! LOL No wonder they don't want to be annexed in Starview Heights!!

My perfectly healthy 110 lb. dog crapped all over the basement with diarrhea and puked all morning, some vomit containing blood. He drank water all night last night.....coincidence? In addition, has anyone thought about showering in this fecal water? yummy!

I just returned from Woodman's where the cashier shared with me that they had to call Pepsi and Coca Cola to get extra shipments of the bottled water they supply... They have three semi's worth of additional water on it's way to the store, and the aisles were being swarmed by people stocking up on tons of water like we were banned from using tap water for weeks!!! I speculate its a conspiracy by the bottled water companies to make some extra money! HA

No but really, I'm glad the city errs on the side of caution, but I figure with all of the coffee I drank today(with potentially contaminated water) and all of the cooking I've done during the last couple of days, if the water IS in fact contaminated, I'm as good as sick by now! Oh well!

I don't listen to the local radio stations because I don't like either one. I usually check this website several times a day but have been busy with a funeral. How about giving leaflets to the mail carriers that deliver in the affected area and putting them in the mail boxes. I can guarantee there are a lot of people that still don't know about this advisory. No excuse for it.

After I heard this on WCLO this afternoon I went to a local grocery store and purchased 4 gallons of water. I like to drink ice water, I dumped the ice from my ice cube trays, washed the 4 containers and found out that to fill them it took over 3/4 of the gallon of water!

Personally, I think the city has been exemplary in how they have responded to what may just be a false positive. Asking for every business and residence to receive a leaflet the SAME DAY that the test results come in is bizarre. The fastest way to get the word out is using the media.
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Consider ourselves lucky we don't live in Crestwood, Illinois -- where taxes are low, and to save money, the city violated federal law in using a well polluted by dry cleaning chemicals. For TWENTY TWO years.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/cpxx26

hannah- some bacteria can survive the freezing process.

I'm glad i have a AWG, i won't have to worry about the water i drink.

**posted @ 5:11**

I also checked with my vet, animals should not drink the water also

There is a map on WJVL's website

I haven't seen an answer regarding pets drinking the water? Heck, they lick their backsides and eat, lord only knows what in the backyard, so is it okay for them to drink the water?

WCLO and WJVL made regular announcements regarding the boil alert several times an hour between 3pm and 6pm today. As we head into weekend programming, we plan to break into the regular broadcast schedule to deliver updates.

The most significant update will likely be made around 2pm Saturday, when the city expects to receive its test results.

Also look to gazettextra.com and wclo.com for updates over the weekend.
(Including the recently-posted answers to common questions)

Sincerely,
Beth Wheelock
WCLO reporter

WCLO has been broadcasting the information since at least 3:00 this afternoon

I imagine if it were truly life threatening the city would have made more of an effort to notify affected residents. Has anyone heard it on tv or radio?

I'm in the affected area. It would be nice if the city would have posted this notice at EVERY home and apartment door in the area. Not really caring how long it would take at this point. This is the first I've heard of it and it is totally unacceptable to not notify residents in person.

It is absolutely ridiculous that the boil order information has not been sent out to the public in a more informative way. At 4pm, the restaurant we went to for dinner had JUST found out about it. They didn't even have all the details on what they could and couldn't serve. Around 5:30pm, Target was JUST finding out about it and closed their Starbucks and food area. In this world full of communication, there has to be a better way to inform the public of health risks.

sangus keeps his cool in a sea of discontent. Some people act like the sky is falling. Try drinking from an open sewer like half the people in this world does. Be thankful our water is tested daily.

Thanks for the info!

i just called the water utility people about the showering, they said dishwashers, showering, washing hands is all ok...just dont consume it.

What about hand washing, washing dishes, showers, doing laundry, etc?

can anyone provide a specific date and time the water sample was taken and found to be contaminated?

I heard about it when I picked up my grandchildren from daycare. The staff has covered all water spigots and had to go to Sentry to buy cases of water for the kids, to drink and to wash their hands. I don't know when the one staff member got a text message about it, but I'm glad he did. He also said there was a huge line of customers buying cases of water. He figured they could easily run out before the store closed.
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My concern though, how long has the water been contaminated? Does anyone know if this is a daily monitoring thing? Or did people start to get ill and show up for what they thought was the swine flu and it turned out to be "piggy" water...

Nevermind.
Thanks Pollyanna

What about dogs?
Can dogs drink the water?

Yes the health department has been calling all restaurants to inform them and to get rid of all there ice
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I also checked with my vet, animals should not drink the water also

more fear factor with nobody trusting anybody.

What about restaurants in the area? Are they having to boil the water too?

I'm just curious, has anyone else in this area experienced slow water drainage when doing laundry or taking a shower? Oddly, the past week in my home, I've noticed a VERY slow drain.
Also, I thought my animals got into something because they've been lethargic and vomited a couple times in the house...could it be from the water?
Can't get through on the phone numbers above. Would be nice to have a city email to report these FYI items to in case it was part of the puzzle.
DON'T let your pets drink the water!

Thank you for the map...
bignik--I am in the affected area, I have been outside all day..thanks for judging me, I am not a "blogger" it appears you must be and by the response of others you're a judgemental boob! I have just called all friends feeding their children formula to let them know, there is nothing in my neighborhood as of yet.

So does anyone know how long it will take to flush the water and/or treat it? Should I be running out to the store to stock up on bottled water or just wait it out for the night?

Nice to see my landlord is on top things. I had to find out on the inter net. No one in my building has been notified.

Do worry if you get sick Mercy East is still open. But if you go to the rest room you can't wash your hands. But they have the sanziter for you.

Mmmmmm...fecal in the water...tasty.

If you look at the map in the link provided by kkm3, it's a HUGE area. The description that the city writes and the Gazette uses is a poor one at best...check out the map if you live anywhere on the northeast side of town.

This a a large area! No note on my doorstep either.

Map:

http://www.ci.janesville.wi.us/Library/n...

Sorry for the delay in getting the map up, but we're between shifts. It's going up now.

Scott W. Angus
Editor

Give the Gazette a break folks! How many of you obvious bloggers actually pay for a subscription to this wonderful newspaper? Kudos to the staff of the Janesville Gazette for reporting this. Not to mention, if you were in an affected area, you would have received the notice on your front doorstep.....Oh wait, you are probably too busy blogging.....Get off the computer and go look at your front door or by your mailboxes for the boil order!!!

This article is up in 3 different versions and not one of them has A map! What is wrong with you guys?

Hannah, Freezing does not kill bacteria, it only slows down it's growth.

How about a map? as others have mentioned, i just happened to read this, how are residents supposed to know about this? More important, which of us is affected...this is irresponsible journalism at its best. Get the facts, report the facts....

Check the city website
www.ci.janesville.wi.us

I dont live on the east side... But I think I will be living off bottled water for a few days...

OMG EW!

Wy wife is nursing a two-day old infant, and we are north of Blackbridge but not Mt. Zion. It would be pretty damn cool if you guys would write "between" instead of "north" of both roads if that's the case. Obviously we are not going to be drinking the water until we know it's safe, but how 'bout double-checking your articles before publishing them.

No doubt the huge bottled water industry is targeting a small portion of lil old Janesville!

I'd like a little better description or even a map. East of Randall is pretty clear. But is it north of Mt. Zion or Blackbridge? And does it run all the way east to Hwy 14? I imagine the folks out there would like to know.

Gazette staff: Can you include the map online? The map shows a larger area than the press release. In fact the wording of the press release from the city doesn't make sense "north of Mount Zion and Blackbridge". This is an important public health matter!

Common courtesy would be to publish the map online for the public safety. I guess that wouldn't sell newspapers!

Ummm...Groody!!

How did this fecal coliform get in to the water supply? My house that is on the edge of the 'area' and this article has scared be thinking we have tainted water. I wonder if the bottled water industry has something to do with this...