Fort Myers has taken all three boil water areas off its map in the first edit to that layer in ninety hours, and it entered no rescission date and published no notice
The three boil water areas the City of Fort Myers has carried on its public map since Wednesday are gone.
A query against the city's boil water layer on Sunday afternoon returns no features at all. That was checked two ways, because this desk recorded a false all-clear on a neighbouring system on August 1 in which a wrong service path returned an error body that a careless parser reads as zero notices. Here the full query returns a proper response with a features key, no error key and an empty array, and a separate count query returns zero. The emptiness is real.
The more telling number is in the layer's own editing metadata. It now reports its last data edit at 10.13.06 on Sunday morning. The value before that was 4.24.52 on Wednesday afternoon, which is the same timestamp this site recorded on July 29, again on July 31, and again at about 7.05 on Sunday morning, roughly three hours before it changed. The layer sat still for 89.8 hours and then moved once, and after it moved the three areas were no longer in it.
What it did not do is record that the advisory ended.
The layer has a RecissionDate field and a Status field. Either would have carried the fact that the notice was lifted, when, and for which areas, and the three records had been sitting there since Wednesday with Status coded active and RecissionDate null. Setting them was available. Instead the rows were removed. The map has therefore stopped saying a notice is active without ever saying that one ended, and those are not the same statement.
This site is not reporting that Fort Myers has lifted its boil water notice. Nothing available on Sunday says that. What can be reported is what the data shows, which is that the layer took its first edit in about ninety hours and now holds nothing.
The city website is still dark, and Sunday was the sixth day. Both www.fortmyers.gov and www.cityftmyers.com again failed to complete a connection at all, returning no HTTP status before the timeout, and a third party proxy on an unrelated network was asked for the homepage and timed out on its own account. So there is still no city page carrying the notice text, the affected addresses, or an announcement that testing has cleared.
No local outlet has picked it up. The full WINK News index was retrieved on Sunday afternoon and does not contain the phrase boil water anywhere. The Gulf Coast News content sitemap lists 18,636 articles, of which three were touched on Sunday, and none of them is about a water advisory.
The neighbouring utilities were checked at the same time and neither forms part of this. Cape Coral holds three active areas, on Fairmont Cove Court, Estancia Lane and SW 43rd Street, each with a break address, a stated cause of a water main break and a timestamped interruption, the newest logged at 6.52 on Sunday morning. Collier County holds none and its layer reports that plainly.
A precautionary boil water notice follows a loss of main pressure and is lifted once bacteriological testing clears. It is not a finding of contamination, and it is not ended by an edit to a map.
Residents in Paseo, Reflection Isles and Botanica Lakes should call Fort Myers Public Utilities and treat what they are told there as the answer. An empty map is a better sign than a frozen one. It is still not a notice.
