{"id":25241,"date":"2013-07-29T17:57:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T21:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=25241"},"modified":"2013-07-29T17:57:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T21:57:54","slug":"change-in-disinfection-process-advisory-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/07\/change-in-disinfection-process-advisory-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in Disinfection Process <BR>Advisory in Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-25242\" title=\"water drinking water\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/water-drinking-water-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/water-drinking-water-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/water-drinking-water.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>Beginning Thursday, August 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2013 <\/strong>the Florida Governmental Utility Authority (FGUA) will be conducting system flushing and temporarily changing the disinfection process for the drinking water supply in your community.<\/p>\n<p>The FGUA conducts system flushing as part of its prudent utility practice.\u00a0 Flushing will remove sediment from the system that has been in the pipes for a long time.\u00a0 Sediment left in the pipes has led to odor and discoloration in some communities, which occurs as chlorine that is used to treat the water subsides.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->When the FGUA temporarily changes the disinfection process, your water will be disinfected with free chlorine rather than combined chlorine\/ammonia (chloramines).\u00a0 This conversion to free chlorine (which is a stronger, faster-acting disinfectant) from chloramines (which is a longer-lasting disinfectant) allows the FGUA to perform a water distribution system purge as recommended by the Department of Environmental Protection for water utilities using chloramines as their primary disinfectant.\u00a0 <strong>This temporary change in disinfection will last approximately 30 days and is expected to end on August 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 2013. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please call the FGUA at <strong>(239) 368-1615 <\/strong>with any questions, or visit the FGUA website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fgua.com\/\">www.FGUA.com<\/a> for additional information on this process.\u00a0 The FGUA appreciates your patience as we work to maintain clean and clear water in your system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning Thursday, August 1st, 2013 the Florida Governmental Utility Authority (FGUA) will be conducting system flushing and temporarily changing the disinfection process for the drinking water supply in your community.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}