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WHITESBURG, Ky. -- Water quality officials are urging Whitesburg utility customers not to drink or cook with city water after petroleum was detected in it.

The Lexington Herald-Leader quoted Whitesburg Mayor James Craft saying several people called on Saturday, saying they smelled gasoline after running water in their homes in the eastern Kentucky town.

It had dissipated by the time state officials sampled it, but the smell returned more strongly on Sunday.

Kentucky Division of Water spokeswoman Allison Fleck said officials found petroleum seeping into the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Letcher County, a mile upstream from Whitesburg's water intake. She says the source is under investigation.

The utility's 2,000 customers are being given bottled water and told to use city water only for flushing commodes.

http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/579948.html

Note: This also means NO SCHOOL on Wednesday in the Letcher County School District, it may be out for the rest of the week.

I guess it goes without saying that the practice of "lighting a match", while indisposed, is being frowned upon until this situation is "rectified"... perhaps a nice air freshener will suffice! Either way it goes, this whole situation "stinks".

(I got the Dbl Kwik post too....)