LIMESTONE, Maine – Maine Rural Water Association has issued a boil water alert for customers at Loring Commerce Center in Limestone.
There are currently no health or safety risks, said Loring Development Authority president and CEO Jonathan Judkins.
In a statement Wednesday, Maine Rural Water Association Executive Director Kirsten Hebert said that Loring’s water system tested positive for high amounts of “nephelometric turbidity units,” prompting the boil order out of precaution.
Nephelometric turbidity measures the concentration of suspended particles within water, which could include soil particles like clay, silt, organic matter, as well as algae and microscopic organisms, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
High amounts of turbidity could result from high rainfall, snow melt, erosion and water flow variations, Hebert said.
The boil order was still in effect as of Thursday evening. Hebert said that daily water testing is ongoing.
“On Monday, we’ll have staff on site to test further out in the [water] line to see where the issue is,” Hebert said.
Forty business and residential tenants at the commerce center are affected by the order, Hebert said.
This story was updated with new information.
