Boil Water Order Affects Thousands

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published March 23, 2009 at 12:05 PM PDT

This story was published more than 15 years ago.

Thousands of San Diego residents will have to boil their water for the next three days. People living in Torrey Pines, Del Mar and Carmel Valley are affected. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce has de

Thousands of San Diego residents will have to boil their water for the next three days. People living in Torrey Pines, Del Mar and Carmel Valley are affected. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce has details.

Click on the map to see the affected areas (courtesy of sandiego.gov)

City water officials say a 24-inch water main break left more than 14,000 customers without water service for several hours early this morning.

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Water service has been restored.

But Arian Collins with the city's water department says those customers still need to boil their water.

"People should either be boiling their water for drinking or cooking or they should be using bottled water," he said.

He says the water should be boiled for at least one minute.

Collins says people can still bathe, water plants or do laundry without boiling the water.

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"Once we've done a series of tests that are required by the state and if they all come back negative, then we'll lift the boil water order," he said.." And that could be from two to three days."

Collins say it will be at least a day before crews know what caused the water main break in a northwest San Diego canyon.

Ed Joyce, KPBS News.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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