Camp Meeker boil-water order could extend to Monday

<p>Residents in about 150 Camp Meeker homes will continue to boil water on Thanksgiving as a precaution even though a broken transmission line has been repaired.</p><p>State health officials want the water tested and then deemed free of any contamination for at least two days, said Hal Wood, who oversees the company that manages the water system owned by the Camp Meeker Recreation and Park District.</p><p>The repair was completed Tuesday, a day after the line broke and spilled more than 200,000 gallons of drinking water into nearby Dutch Bill Creek.</p><p>Samples of the system’s water were taken Wednesday and will be again today, said Wood, president of Russian River Utility.</p><p>Because of the holiday weekend, it may be Monday before the boil-water notice can be lifted.</p><p>The precautionary notice affects about 150 of the 360 homes on the water system in Camp Meeker. Both the community and nearby Occidental use the transmission line to bring water from a well on the Russian River near Monte Rio.</p><p>-- Robert Digitale</p>