Cape Coral cleared its last four boil water notices inside fourteen minutes this morning, every one of them faster than the city's own median, and then put a new area on the map at 1135 SE 13th Street
Cape Coral lifted the last four of its precautionary boil water notices within fourteen minutes of each other this morning, emptying the city's active map for the first time in more than a week, and then filled it again with a new area shortly after 9 a.m.
The city rescinded the notice covering 1437 SE 21st Street at 7.35 a.m., 727 SW 56th Street at 7.41, 1831 Embers Parkway West at 7.45 and 1525 SW 52nd Lane at 7.49. All four had been logged on Tuesday.
Every one of them cleared faster than a Cape Coral notice usually does. They ran 43.9, 43.7, 47.1 and 42.0 hours. The city's own 2026 archive holds 162 notices carrying both a break date and a rescind date, and their median run is 49.1 hours, with 58 percent going past 48. All four of this morning's sit in the faster 42 percent.
That is a change of pace from yesterday, when this site reported three notices lifted after 97, 76 and 51 hours, the longest of them in the slowest fifteen percent of the year.
The four records moved into the city's rescind layer carrying explicit lift timestamps rather than simply disappearing from the map, which is the check this desk applies after reporting on August 2 that three Fort Myers areas had been deleted from a different utility's layer with no rescission recorded against them.
For roughly an hour the city had nothing under notice at all. This desk polls the service every five minutes, and the active layer read empty on every poll between 8.09 and 9.04 a.m.
The new area covers 1135 SE 13th Street and was first seen on the active layer between 9.04 and 9.09 a.m. It spans 365,418 square feet, about 8.39 acres, which is the smallest footprint the city has had under notice in over a week. Its record carries a cause reading water main break and no lift date.
That address answers a question this site left open yesterday. The August 5 brief recorded that the city had a planned shutdown logged for 1135 SE 13th Street at 9 a.m. that morning, that no boil water notice for the address appeared on the active layer, and that no conclusion was being drawn about whether the work went ahead. The city's record for that address, GISID 2827, has now moved off the scheduled shutdown layer and onto the active one. The city has published no statement explaining the move, and this brief asserts no link between the planned work and the notice.
Nothing here 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.
One correction to this site's earlier coverage. Cape Coral logged a new planned shutdown at 8.32 this morning covering 1957 Diplomat Parkway East, set for 9 a.m. on August 12. Its polygon covers 2,057,479 square feet, about 47.2 acres. That is more than double the 23 acre shape at SW 52nd Lane which this site described on August 4 as the largest single area anywhere on the city's map. It is not, and that description is superseded.
Three other planned shutdowns are on the calendar: 4620 SE 5th Place on August 11, 1019 SE 43rd Street on August 12 and 1108 SE 39th Terrace on August 18.
Residents on Cape Coral water who want to know whether their own address sits inside the active area have to open the city's map, because the city publishes polygons rather than street lists.
