SOUTH ABINGTON TWP., LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania American Water has issued a boil water advisory for dozens of customers in South Abington Township following a pump failure that caused a loss of pressure in the water distribution system.<\/p>\n
According to the utility, the loss of positive water pressure occurred Thursday evening in its Lake Scranton system.<\/p>\n
Officials said a loss of water pressure can create conditions that allow contamination to enter the distribution system through backflow or back siphonage. As a precaution, a boil water advisory has been issued for affected customers while water quality testing is conducted.<\/p>\n
The advisory affects customer connections in the following areas:<\/p>\n
Abbey DriveCrossgate DriveHampton RoadGatepost Lane<\/p>\n
Customers in the affected area are advised to bring water to a rolling boil for at least one minute before using it for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes or preparing food.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania American Water said the advisory will remain in effect until testing confirms the water is safe to consume and the advisory is lifted.<\/p>\n
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Customers will be notified when the boil water advisory is no longer necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH ABINGTON TWP., LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania American Water has issued a boil water advisory for dozens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-217400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}