Overview
- An emergency alert went out Nov. 25 with roughly 900 customers initially identified in an area from San Pedro to Peninsula Street.
- Officials say boiling, freezing, filtering, or adding disinfectants will not make the water safe, so residents should use bottled water for drinking and hygiene.
- Residents may flush toilets but should not use tap water for washing, cooking, bathing, or irrigation until further notice.
- Ventura is preparing an online map of the affected area, arranging bottled-water distribution, and setting up hand-washing stations.
- Remediation and testing continue under Ventura Water and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, with Neda Oil’s contractor FREY Environmental drilling wells and collecting samples.