Flooding Causes Boil Water Order and Water Treatment Plant Closure.WESTFIELD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 1999-- Flooding of the Raritan River The Raritan River is a major river of central New Jersey in the United States. Its watershed drains much of the mountainous area of the central part of the state, emptying into the Raritan Bay on the Atlantic Ocean. has forced Elizabethtown Water Company and its subsidiaries, the Edison and Liberty Water Companies to issue a boiled water warning and to close one of the Company's primary water treatment plants. At 11 p.m. on Thursday night, Elizabethtown closed its Raritan-Millstone Water Treatment Plant in Bridgewater. In order to maintain proper pressure for fire protection, the Company asks that all customers stop using water for all nonessential non·es·sen·tial adj. Being a substance required for normal functioning but not needed in the diet because the body can synthesize it. purposes immediately. Furthermore, all water used for drinking, cooking, brushing teeth etc. should be boiled for three minutes "Three Minutes" is the 46th episode of Lost. It is the twenty-second episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It first aired on May 17, 2006 on ABC. before consumption. Immuno-compromised persons, such as persons undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have undergone organ transplants organ transplant: see transplantation, medical. , persons with HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or other immune system immune system Cells, cell products, organs, and structures of the body involved in the detection and destruction of foreign invaders, such as bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells. Immunity is based on the system's ability to launch a defense against such invaders. disorders, should exercise additional caution with their drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. . It is not clear at this time when service will be restored at the treatment plant. Elizabethtown's other water sources will remain operating to cover essential water uses, including fire protection. Another press release will be sent as more information becomes available. Elizabethtown Water Company serves 213,000 business and residential customers in 54 municipalities in Hunterdon, Mercer mer·cer n. Chiefly British A dealer in textiles, especially silks. [Middle English, from Old French mercier, trader, from merz, merchandise, from Latin merx , Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union counties. The following is a list of towns that are served in each one of these counties: -0-
Hunterdon: Mercer: Middlesex:
Raritan Township Lawrence Cranbury
Readington Princeton Borough Dunellen
Tewksbury Princeton Township Edison
West Windsor Middlesex
Piscataway
Morris: Somerset: Plainsboro
Chester Bedminster South Brunswick
Bound Brook South Plainfield
Union: Branchburg
Clark Bridgewater
Cranford Franklin
Elizabeth Green Brook
Fanwood Hillsborough
Garwood Millstone
Hillside Montgomery
Kenilworth North Plainfield
Linden Peapack & Gladstone
Mountainside Raritan Borough
Plainfield Somerville
Roselle South Bound Brook
Roselle Park Warren
Scotch Plains Watchung
Union
Westfield
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