{"id":79032,"date":"2025-07-20T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79032\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:57:09","slug":"port-angeles-issues-city-wide-do-not-drink-water-order-amid-contamination-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79032\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Angeles issues city-wide &#8216;Do Not Drink&#8217; water order amid contamination concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ANGELES, Wash.  \u2014  A &#8220;Do Not Drink&#8221; water order has been issued for all City of Port Angeles water utility customers amid contamination concerns, effective immediately. <\/p>\n<p>This order applies to all properties connected to the city&#8217;s water system, regardless of whether they are located within or outside city limits.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are advised to use only bottled water for drinking, brushing teeth, washing dishes, making ice, and food preparation until further notice. This advisory also applies to pets. <\/p>\n<p>The potential contamination is chemical-related, not bacterial, so boiling, freezing, filtering, adding chlorine, or letting water stand will not make it safe for consumption.<\/p>\n<p>While tap water has been deemed safe for bathing, showering, flushing toilets, and doing laundry, residents are cautioned to avoid ingesting any water during these activities.<\/p>\n<p>The city will distribute potable water on Sunday, July 20, at two locations in Port Angeles: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Civic Field at 307 South Race Street <\/li>\n<li>Shane Park at 613 South G Street. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both sites will operate from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., offering free bottled water for drinking and cooking while supplies last. Distribution will be limited based on household size.<\/p>\n<p>Priority water deliveries are being made to Olympic Medical Center and other critical facilities to ensure continued services.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities urged residents not to call 9-1-1 for information, and said updates will be provided once water testing is complete and the issue is resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ANGELES, Wash. \u2014 A &#8220;Do Not Drink&#8221; water order has been issued for all City of Port&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[54487,54488,17078,54485,746,54484,54489,15516,159,67,132,68,54486],"class_list":{"0":"post-79032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-bottled-water","9":"tag-chemical-related","10":"tag-contamination","11":"tag-do-not-drink","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-port-angeles","14":"tag-potable-water","15":"tag-residents","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-water-order"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114887802718782289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}