{"id":135238,"date":"2023-12-09T13:49:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T19:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=135238"},"modified":"2023-12-09T13:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T19:51:55","slug":"mississippi-state-department-of-health-lifts-boil-water-alert-for-the-city-of-oxford-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-state-department-of-health-lifts-boil-water-alert-for-the-city-of-oxford-water-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi State Department of Health Lifts Boil-Water Alert for the City of Oxford Water Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The State-imposed Boil-Water alert, issue by the <strong>Mississippi State Department of Health<\/strong> (MSDH), for customers who receive their drinking water from the <strong>City of Oxford<\/strong> water supply located in <strong>Lafayette County<\/strong>, is hereby LIFTED immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tests performed by the MSDH laboratory indicate that the water is safe to drink and does NOT contain bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the that the precautionary Boil-Water alert is lifted, below are the recommended steps from the Mississippi State Department of Health:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Flush faucets for total of ten (10) minutes to introduce system water throughout house plumbing (Example: 1 faucet &#8211; 10 minutes, 2 faucets &#8211; 5 minutes, 3 faucets &#8211; 3 minutes, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discard any drinks, ice, food, etc., made during the boil water notice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rewash any food or drink contact items (knives, forks, plates, etc.) with &#8220;cleared&#8221; system water<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check water filters (in faucents, refrigerators, and elsewhere) and replace if necessary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not use water from your hot water for drinking until several exchanges of the tank have occurred<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Run dishwasher through a cycle before washing dishes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State-imposed Boil-Water alert, issue by the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH), for customers who receive their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":135239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[27418,4379,256,5,16144,4],"class_list":["post-135238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-boil-water-alert-2","tag-city-of-oxford","tag-lafayette-county","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-state-department-of-health","tag-oxford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Boil-Water-Alert-Lifted.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135242,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135238\/revisions\/135242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}