Cape Coral is down to two active boil water notices, and the older of them has now stood longer than any of the three the city cleared on Thursday
Cape Coral's official map of areas under a precautionary boil water notice held two active records on Friday morning, down from four on Thursday. Neither carries a rescind date.
The city attributes both to water main breaks, as it does every record on the map. The older of the two covers 1724 SE 8th Avenue and was logged on Wednesday, July 29 at 10:03 a.m., with the service interruption entered seven seconds later. It maps to about 390,600 square feet, close to nine acres, with a perimeter of about 3,150 feet. The newer covers 2623 Fairmont Cove Court and was logged on Thursday, July 30 at 10:09 a.m., mapping to about 455,600 square feet, close to ten and a half acres, with a perimeter of about 3,030 feet. Both are recorded against drinking water.
The two active breaks were logged six minutes apart on the clock, on consecutive mornings.
Everything this site listed as active on Thursday is cleared except the SE 8th Avenue area. The city rescinded the three July 28 records in a seven minute window on Thursday morning: 3720 SE 1st Place at 8:32 a.m., 1718 Four Mile Cove at 8:39 a.m., and 1718 Four Mile Cove Parkway at 8:39 a.m. Those last two are the pair of records at the same street number that this site flagged on Thursday, and the city cleared them at the same minute, which is consistent with one repair rather than two, though the city's records still do not say so and this site is not going to guess.
Their clearing times are the useful measure. The SE 1st Place area stood about forty four and a half hours, the first Four Mile Cove record about forty four hours, and the second about forty two and a half. All three cleared inside forty five hours.
The SE 8th Avenue area has now been under a notice for about forty five hours and has not been lifted, which puts it past all three. Earlier this month a Cape Coral notice on Skyline Boulevard ran nine days before it was rescinded on July 29, so a notice running past the usual clearing window is not unprecedented here.
The other two layers on the same service are empty. The hydrant flushing layer returned no records and so did the scheduled shutdown layer.
The count across the two notice layers is now eighteen, against the seventeen this site recorded early Thursday and the thirteen it recorded on July 28. One new break in about thirty hours is the slowest addition this site has logged since it began reading the map, after a stretch that added four in two days. What has not changed is the composition. All eighteen records are water main breaks, all eighteen carry a July break date, and the earliest is July 9, which puts eighteen main breaks inside twenty three days. The city's own identifiers on those records run from 2795 to 2823.
On what a notice requires and what it does not mean, the city's guidance was set out in this site's July 30 report. The short version is that the boil requirement covers water that goes into a person, and that a precautionary notice is issued on a pressure loss rather than on a finding that anything is in the water.
Residents on Cape Coral water who want to know whether their own address falls inside either current area have to open the map, which the city links from its Boil Water page. Lee County Utilities and the City of Fort Myers run separate systems and separate maps, and a Cape Coral notice says nothing about either.
