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Pilot Station is under a boil water notice. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conversation issued the public health advisory to the lower Yukon River community on Feb. 25, when it received an alert that the public water system had dropped below 20 PSI on Feb. 24.
The notice advises Pilot Station residents to boil their water for two minutes and let it cool before using it for “drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing hands, food preparation, and hand washing until further notice.” Boiling the water will kill potential bacteria, like E. coli, as well as other organisms that could be in the water.
CARTHAGE â By other standards, the chemical fire in a derelict Carthage mill would have been considered âsmall.â
The structure itself was not on fire and the fire was contained to the out building where it started without spreading to the attached significantly larger main structure with two massive metal water tanks on top.
But the unidentified cobalt-blue gelatinous liquid that sported the low flames on Jan. 19 at the old Island Paper Company mill on Tannery Island in the village was hot enough to be seen bubbling and boiling. It was hot enough trees near the brick building that had not been on fire were completely charred.