Cape Coral drew a second precautionary boil water area around the same Hancock Bridge Parkway address on Tuesday morning, and although the record is named for the parkway, only three of the 188 addresses inside it stand on it, the rest being the residential streets behind it, which takes the city to six live areas
Cape Coral added a sixth precautionary boil water area to its map on Tuesday morning, and its filed name points at the wrong street.
The record appeared on the city's active layer within a five minute window between 10.04.14 and 10.09.09 a.m., logged by this desk's own five minute polling of the service. The city has filed it as 428 Hancock Bridge Parkway #2.
Run against the city's own address layer, the shape holds 188 active address points. Three of them are on Hancock Bridge Parkway.
The rest are the residential streets behind it: 56 on Southeast Van Loon Terrace, 33 on Southeast 1st Terrace, 23 on Southeast 4th Place, 22 on Southeast 1st Street, 21 on Southeast 2nd Avenue, six on Southeast 4th Avenue, six on Southeast 2nd Place, and 18 row records carrying no single street name. Almost all of them are in postcode 33990.
It is also a street of houses rather than a corridor of flats. Of the 188 records, 129 are parcels and 41 are plain address points, against the Southeast 5th Place area reported by this site earlier today, where 166 of 243 records were individual condominium units.
The new shape sits immediately west of the Hancock Bridge Parkway area that has been live since Monday. The two occupy the same latitude band and adjoin along their edges, so the affected stretch has been extended westward rather than a separate problem opening elsewhere in the city. Together the two cover 74.71 acres and 439 active addresses.
This one is new to the map rather than moved on to it. Its internal record number is the highest of the six, consistent with a record created on the day, and the city's scheduled shutdown layer still holds exactly the two records it held at breakfast time, so nothing left that layer to produce this area.
Why it was drawn has not been published.
The two Hancock Bridge records carry different break stamps, Monday at 10.22 and Tuesday at 9.09, and the city has issued no notice saying whether this is the same break spreading, further work on it, or a second failure. The record's cause field reads Water Main Break, but every record on this service read Water Main Break as recently as August 10, including shutdowns the city had published weeks in advance, so the field does not separate a burst pipe from planned work.
The record's own clock fields are inconsistent. Its break stamp reads Tuesday at 09:09:47, its interruption stamp reads Monday at 09:09:56, a day before the break it should follow, and its hour fields read 10 a.m. On this record the hour fields are the ones that match what was observed. This desk has now logged that field pair contradicting itself on five of the city's records.
Cape Coral now has six active areas covering 208.24 acres and 1,043 active address points, the most this site has recorded at once. The city lifted two areas around Skyline Boulevard at about a quarter past seven on Tuesday morning, and nothing has been rescinded since.
Cape Coral runs its own water system, separate from Lee County Utilities, which publishes a different map.
The instruction inside the area is the city's standard one. Residents are advised to bring water to a rolling boil for one minute before drinking it, cooking with it, washing their hands, making ice, brushing their teeth, washing dishes, rinsing raw foods or preparing any other drink, including baby bottles, or to use bottled water instead. Showering and doing laundry are not restricted.
The city is equally direct that a notice is not a finding about the water. Its published guidance states that the State Department of Health requires a precautionary notice when a line break leaves the system at zero or negative pressure, and that one may also be issued when a main break causes pressure to drop below 20 psi or when routine samples show low disinfection residual. Asked on its own page whether this means the water is unsafe, the city answers no, and says the guidelines require the notice and that this does not always mean the drinking water is contaminated.
A lift is unlikely to be quick. The city states it must receive two consecutive days of clear laboratory results before it can issue a rescission, and that the laboratory is closed on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. No expected lift date has been published for any of the six areas.
Two shutdowns remain on the calendar, at 1019 Southeast 43rd Street on Wednesday and 1108 Southeast 39th Terrace on August 18.
Anyone checking their own status should note that these notices apply by mapped shape rather than by street name, so an address just outside a boundary is not covered and one inside it is. The city has notified affected residents electronically since 2015, by text message or telephone call rather than by hand delivered notice, and residents can update the contact details it holds for them.
