{"id":68176,"date":"2026-05-25T11:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/?p=68176"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:58:25","slug":"preventive-boil-water-advisory-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/preventive-boil-water-advisory-in-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventive Boil Water Advisory in Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Town of Hampstead wishes to inform residents that a non-compliant result was identified during the latest drinking water testing process.<\/p>\n<p>As a precautionary measure, a new and more extensive series of tests is currently underway on the water distribution system to determine whether the result was isolated or not. Until results are confirmed, a preventive boil water advisory remains in effect.<\/p>\n<p>Residents must use tap water that has been boiled vigorously for at least one minute, or bottled water, for the following purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drinking and preparing beverages;<\/li>\n<li>Preparing baby bottles and infant food;<\/li>\n<li>Washing and preparing raw foods;<\/li>\n<li>Preparing foods that do not require prolonged cooking;<\/li>\n<li>Making ice cubes;<\/li>\n<li>Brushing teeth and rinsing the mouth;<\/li>\n<li>Giving water to pets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Municipal teams remain mobilized and updates will be shared as soon as additional information becomes available. Bottled water is available at the Community Centre, located at 30, Rue Lyncroft.<\/p>\n<p>View full details on our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/environment\/water\/boil-water-advisory-2\/\"> Boiled Water Advisory Webpage.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Town of Hampstead wishes to inform residents that a non-compliant result was identified during the latest drinking water testing process. As a precautionary measure, a new and more extensive series of tests is currently underway on the water distribution system to determine whether the result was isolated or not. Until results are confirmed, a preventive boil water advisory remains in effect. Residents must use tap water that has been boiled vigorously for at least one minute, or bottled water, for the following purposes: Drinking and preparing beverages; Preparing baby bottles and infant food; Washing and preparing raw foods; Preparing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68204,"href":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68176\/revisions\/68204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hampstead.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}