A “boil water advisory” has been lifted for residents of Bernie’s Mobile Home Park in Winfield after a six-day repair period for a broken water main.
Park management and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection both confirmed the advisory was lifted on Tuesday.
In a statement sent to residents, park management said Bernie’s had experienced a water main break on Dec. 17, which resulted in a loss of water pressure.
It advised residents to boil water or use water bottles for drinking, making ice, washing dishes, brushing teeth and food preparation.
According to the DEP, two consecutive days of coliform bacteria sampling had to show satisfactory results for the advisory to be lifted.
The advisory came barely a month after the DEP lifted a “Do Not Use” notice imposed because of elevated levels of manganese — an elemental metal — detected in the wells that serve the park.
That notice left residents without drinkable water for around a month from mid-October to November.
Still, Winfield Clerk Patty Knapp said the township has around 100 cases of water at its municipal offices, which it has offered for free to Bernie’s residents.
She said residents can come to Winfield’s municipal offices to retrieve two cases at a time.
“We just never know at this point,” she said.
Knapp’s father — an ailing Vietnam War veteran — is among the dozens of residents at the park.
Despite the previously lifted advisories, Knapp said her sister has continued to provide her father with water in a cooler and bottles because of continued worries about its quality.
