{"id":357435,"date":"2025-12-19T05:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357435\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T05:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:12:08","slug":"winfield-mobile-home-park-faces-water-troubles-again-after-monthlong-do-not-use-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357435\/","title":{"rendered":"Winfield mobile home park faces water troubles again after monthlong &#8216;Do Not Use&#8217; notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barely a month after water at Bernie\u2019s Mobile Home in Winfield finally tested at safe drinking levels, residents are facing a boil water advisory.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement sent to residents, park management said Bernie\u2019s had experienced a water main break on Wednesday, which resulted in a loss of water pressure.<\/p>\n<p>It advised residents to boil water or use water bottles for drinking, making ice, washing dishes, brushing teeth and food preparation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA loss of positive water pressure is a signal of the existence of conditions that allow contamination to enter the distribution system through back-flow by back-pressure and back-siphonage,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said in those conditions, \u201cthere is an increased chance that the water may contain disease-causing organisms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The advisory affects about 170 people served by 75 connections, according to the DEP.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in mid-October, <a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/local\/valley-news-dispatch\/residents-of-winfield-mobile-home-park-left-without-water-answers-for-a-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">residents were left without drinking water<\/a> after the DEP issued a \u201cDo Not Use\u201d notice because of elevated levels of manganese \u2014 an elemental metal \u2014 found in the wells that serve the park.<\/p>\n<p>That notice was lifted in mid-November.<\/p>\n<p>Residents had been using cases of bottled water sporadically distributed by park management, but many said it wasn\u2019t enough for their regular needs.<\/p>\n<p>That led several residents to bring in their own water in jugs or other vessels to get through the month.<\/p>\n<p>Among those left to bring water from elsewhere was Kellie Walker, who has lived at the park with her fianc\u00e9 and three children for about two years.<\/p>\n<p>Since the \u201cDo Not Use\u201d notice was lifted last month, Walker said she has mostly been using her water normally, but she\u2019s still refused to bathe her 1-year-old using the mobile home park\u2019s water.<\/p>\n<p>But just before Christmas, she\u2019s back to using bottled water again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how anyone can live like this,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<p>Several of her calls to park management have gone unanswered and unreturned, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just beyond frustrated,\u201d Walker said. \u201cHow am I supposed to be in the Christmas spirit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stackhouse Management, the North Carolina-based firm that has managed Bernie\u2019s since 2022, didn\u2019t respond to inquiries about its plans and timeline to repair the water main. Neither did the park\u2019s onsite manager.<\/p>\n<p>The park management\u2019s recent statement directed residents to the DEP for more information.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DEP, the advisory will be lifted after repairs are complete, the system is flushed, and two consecutive days of coliform sampling show satisfactory results.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t say how long that process would take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barely a month after water at Bernie\u2019s Mobile Home in Winfield finally tested at safe drinking levels, residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-357435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}