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Show PhcMie rings after scare Pleasant Grove City Officials were kept busy answering the phone last week after a local newspaper reported that Pleasant Grove water was contaminated. Robert Williams, city treasurer, said the calls were from people who had read the story or who had heard by word of mouth that residents should boil their water. Williams noted that Pleasant Grove's water is just line. The rumors began after the Manila Culinary Water Co. reported that the quarterly wator report to the state showed that there was a higher count of colil'orm bacteria than is allowed by the state. No order was given to boil the water in Manila. The latest tests showed the water was okay, according to Glade Shelley of the Utah County Health Dept. The Manila Culinary Water Co. is a separate system than the Pleasant Grove water system. Those residents of Pleasant Grove who live in the north portion of the city, formerly called Manila, and which was annexed by the city in 1980, are served by the Manila Water Co. Williams said thai many residents did not know there were two separate, water companies within the city limits. A separate board handles the Manila Culinary Water Co. and it has nothing to do with Pleasant Grove City itself, Williams said. As required by law, the Manila Water Company ran a notice in the newspaper last week reporting the coliform bacteria was higher than allowed. According to Dave Faux, secretary' of the Manila Culinary Water Co., the contaminated sample was only found at one location. The problem appears to be cleared up. Faux said. |