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Toledo, Monroe County Tap Water Safe To Drink Again

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Andrew Cluley
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89.1 WEMU

The Water is safe again for 400,000 people in Northeast Ohio and Southeast Michigan.  Still,  affected residents shouldn't drink straight from the tap without first taking a few precautions. 
Those served by the South County Water District in Toledo have had an unusable water supply since Saturday due to high levels of toxins. In Monroe County, the communities of Luna Pier, Bedford and Erie Townships and a portion of LaSalle Township were impacted. 

Mark Hammond is Monroe County's Emergency Management Director.   He says, "The testing process they went through was actually in the neighborhoods, at the neighborhood level, it wasn't at the water plants.  So now you've just got to flush it through the final phase in your homes."

Monroe County residents who get their water from Toledo should run hot and cold water for 15 minutes to clean out their pipes, ice makers, and hot water heaters. 

The water warning was initially issued early Saturday because unusually high levels of toxins were discovered in the water supply. Ohio officials say the cause of the pollution is likely a product of large algae blooms in Lake Erie. 

Like 89.1 WEMU on Facebook and follow us on Twitter— Andrew Cluley is the Ann Arbor beat reporter, and anchor for 89.1 WEMU News. Contact him at 734.487.3363 or email him acluley@emich.edu. 

 

Like many, I first came to this area when I started school at the University of Michigan, then fell in love with the community and haven’t left. After graduating from U of M in the mid 1990’s I interned at WDET for several years, while also working a variety of jobs in Ann Arbor. Then in 1999 I joined the WEMU news team.
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