Cape Coral is carrying three active boil water areas, two of them opened on Monday and one that has now stood since 18 August, while every area the city was working through on Friday has been cleared
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The City of Cape Coral is carrying three active precautionary boil water areas, two of which the city logged on Monday.
The city's live boil water layer, the one its own utilities page directs residents to, carries three areas with no rescission date against them. All three follow water main breaks, and all three are recorded against drinking water.
The first of Monday's two was stamped at 7.50 in the morning and is tied to a break at 1514 SW 16th Court. Its polygon covers about 7.9 acres, and it is the only one of the three on the west side of the city.
The second was stamped at 11.09 and sits around a break at 1017 SE 39th Terrace. It is the smallest of the three at about 3.6 acres.
The third is the oldest and the one worth noting. It sits around 1019 SE 43rd Street, covers about 7.5 acres, and has carried no rescission date since the city logged it on 18 August. Tuesday is its seventh day.
That record is also the only one of the three whose own time fields do not agree. The city created it on 18 August, but amended it on Monday morning and moved its service interruption stamp to 10 o'clock that day. The record alone does not say whether that is a second interruption at the same address or a correction to the first, and the city has published no narrative notice alongside it.
The two southeastern areas, at 43rd Street and 39th Terrace, lie about three tenths of a mile apart and cover the same narrow band of longitude. A household in that pocket may fall inside either shape, and because the areas are drawn as polygons rather than described by street, the map is the only reliable way to tell. The city links to it from its Boil Water page. Together the three areas cover roughly 19 acres.
A precautionary notice is not a finding that the water is contaminated. The city's standing guidance is that these notices are required whenever a main break drops pressure below 20 psi, and it asks affected customers to bring water to a rolling boil for one minute before drinking it, cooking with it, making ice, rinsing food, preparing baby bottles or brushing teeth, or to use bottled water instead. Showering and laundry are not restricted.
Clearance is not quick. The city says a notice stands until two consecutive days of clear laboratory results come back from the Lee County Health Department.
The same record shows the city clearing the previous round. The two southeastern areas that were active on Friday, at 4240 SE 20th Place and 4116 SE 19th Place, were both rescinded at 7.27 on Monday morning, twenty three seconds apart. A third, at 1809 SE 9th Terrace, was lifted on Sunday morning. Every area this desk reported as active on Friday has since been cleared.
One further point of fact, which carries no claim about cause: the new area at 1017 SE 39th Terrace sits on the same street as 1108 SE 39th Terrace, a notice the city rescinded on 21 August after it had stood for seventeen days.
The city named no cause beyond a main break for any of the three active areas. Nothing here was reported by an outlet. It was read from the city's own map service, which is what the public map draws from.
