Boil water advisory for Prince Rupert, B.C., lifted after 3 months
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Residents of Prince Rupert, on B.C.'s North Coast, can once again drink water directly from their taps after a three-month long boil water advisory was lifted.
The advisory was put into place in November after a power failure at the city's remote treatment plant. It could not be lifted until the city met numerous conditions, including regular flushing to ensure appropriate chlorine levels, fixing a pipe that posed a stagnant water risk and passing several water quality tests.
All of those were completed this week, the city says, and Northern Health has now deemed the water safe to drink for now and the foreseeable future.
The latest advisory was the fifth boil-water advisory issued in the city of roughly 14,000 last year, with residents forced to either boil or buy clean water for more than three months in 2024.