Drinking water advisory for Palm Beach lifted after toxin levels fall
Palm Beach Daily News
Palm Beach residents and businesses were notified Friday afternoon they can resume using tap water for drinking and cooking, one week after the City of West Palm Beach issued a drinking water advisory following the discovery of a dangerous toxin in its water supply.
West Palm Beach, which supplies water to the town and nearby South Palm Beach, lifted the alert it announced May 28 after tests showed the city's water supply was contaminated with cylindrospermopsin, a toxin produced by blue-green algae that can cause health problems if ingested by vulnerable people.