PALM BAY, Florida — Boil-water alerts like the one that affected about 7,000 Palm Bay households over the weekend are becoming more common, as a result of stricter guidelines the city implemented.
Palm Bay’s water system issued 37 alerts during 2008 and the first six weeks of 2009. That’s up from five in 2007. The alerts went out for everything from scheduled maintenance on pipes and low pressure in the system to water main breaks like the one that occurred Saturday in Palm Bay. [...]
