Cape Coral has one boil water area live this morning, a 23 acre shape at 3622 SE 5th Court that went up on Friday morning and has not moved since, and it replaced a notice the city had carried at 1135 SE 13th Street for 94 hours
Cape Coral has one boil water area on its map this morning. It covers 3622 SE 5th Court, the city logged the break at 10.45 a.m. on Friday, and it was still carrying no lift date on two readings of the city's own map taken just before 3.50 a.m. today. That is roughly 17 hours under a precautionary instruction so far.
Households inside the shape should boil tap water for one minute before drinking it, cooking with it, making ice, brushing teeth or washing dishes until the city clears it. The city publishes polygons rather than street lists, so its map is the only thing that settles whether a particular address is inside.
The area is large by recent standards. It spans 998,918 square feet, about 22.93 acres, which is close to three times the size of the 8.39 acre area it replaced.
That earlier area was 1135 SE 13th Street, and the city rescinded it at 8.41 a.m. on Friday, about two hours before the new break was logged.
Measured from the break stamp on its own record, 10.10 a.m. on August 3, that notice ran 94.5 hours. The city's 2026 archive holds 164 notices carrying both a break date and a rescind date, and their median run is 49.1 hours. Twenty eight of them, 17 percent, ran 94.5 hours or longer. This one is among them, and it is the slowest single notice this site has tracked.
There is a second way to measure it and it gives a very different answer.
A resident does not experience a database field. A resident experiences the map. This site recorded the active layer holding nothing until shortly after 9 a.m. on August 6, and recorded 1135 SE 13th Street appearing on it at 9.09 that morning. The city stamped it rescinded at 8.41 the next morning. On the public map, then, the notice lasted about 23 and a half hours.
So the city's own fields describe a notice that ran four days, and the map a resident checks showed one that ran one. The city has published no statement explaining the gap, and none is assumed here.
That address has now held three positions on the map inside four days. On August 5 it sat on the planned shutdown layer with work scheduled for 9 a.m. that morning and no boil water notice against it. On August 6 it was on the active layer with a cause reading water main break. It is now on the rescind layer. Anyone relying on this map is better served treating it as a record of what the city has published than as a live picture of the ground.
None of this is a finding about the water itself. A precautionary notice goes up when main pressure drops and comes down when testing clears, and the city states that clearing one requires two consecutive days of satisfactory bacteriological results from the Lee County Health Department.
Four planned shutdowns remain on the calendar: 4620 SE 5th Place on August 11, 1019 SE 43rd Street and 1957 Diplomat Parkway East on August 12, and 1108 SE 39th Terrace on August 18.
Elsewhere in the region the water picture is clear. Collier County has no active advisory, the City of Fort Myers has none, and unincorporated Lee County has posted nothing newer than August 4. There is no active Atlantic storm and no weather alert touching either county.
