{"id":745015,"date":"2018-10-06T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T22:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=745015"},"modified":"2018-10-08T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:55:15","slug":"do-not-use-water-notice-still-up-for-a-portion-of-cherokee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=745015","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Use Water Notice Still Up for a Portion of Cherokee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/drinking-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/drinking-water-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-426867\" \/><\/a>JACKSONVILLE &#8211; The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality continues to work to resolve the do not use the water order for more than 550 customers of the Craft-Turney Water Supply Corporation in Cherokee County. The order was issued for an area southeast of Jacksonville when a contaminant was found in the water. They believe a fungicide entered the water supply. Customers in the area can use water to flush their toilets but cannot use the water for any other purposes, such as bathing, washing clothes, preparing food, drinking, gardening, or for pets.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A contractor hired by the TCEQ has set up a trailer with 16 shower stalls at Central Baptist Church, 1909 East Rusk Street in Jacksonville. The shower trailer is now open daily from 6:00am to midnight. On Thursday, the TCEQ delivered 28 pallets of bottled water to the utility for use by the customers. The water is available at the Craft-Turney office at 505 Loop 456 in Jacksonville. Also, the First United Methodist church in Jacksonville has made its facilities available for bathing and washing dishes between the hours of 8:00am and 7:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>The do not use order will remain in place until the water system has been adequately flushed and samples indicate that the water is safe to use. It is not known, at this time, how long this may take.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE &#8211; The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality continues to work to resolve the do not use the water order for more than 550 customers of the Craft-Turney Water Supply Corporation in Cherokee County. The order was issued for an area southeast of Jacksonville when a contaminant was found in the water. They believe a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=745015\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do Not Use Water Notice Still Up for a Portion of Cherokee County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":426867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 23:08:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745016,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745015\/revisions\/745016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/426867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}