{"id":257644,"date":"2025-11-02T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257644\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:38:08","slug":"prince-rupert-b-c-issues-boil-water-notice-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257644\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Rupert, B.C., issues boil water notice \u2014 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Prince Rupert has issued its latest boil water notice, less than a month after the last notice was lifted.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the third boil water notice that the city of about 12,000, has been under this year.<\/p>\n<p>All residents must heat their water to a boil for at least one minute before drinking, cooking, or brushing their teeth, among other activities, according to a city news release.<\/p>\n<p>The city said the issue is a result of construction on its water distribution network, which began with replacing a 100-year-old dam and has moved onto replacing a significant number of municipal water pipes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat work has impacted water quality at times, including this instance, and we appreciate the community&#8217;s continued patience,\u201d the city said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>The notice is in effect until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>The last boil water notice lasted two months, while the one before lasted three months. In 2024, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/prince-rupert-water-problems-1.7394095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">five boil water notices issued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The city says residents must boil water before:<\/p>\n<p>Brushing teeth.Drinking and cooking.Washing vegetables that will be eaten raw.Making ice.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to bathe and wash clothes in unboiled water, according to the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Prince Rupert has issued its latest boil water notice, less than a month after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-257644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}