Orange Cove Water Deemed Safe

Peo­ple liv­ing in the city of Orange Cove no longer have to worry if their drink­ing water is safe. Offi­cials say tests results have come back neg­a­tive for nitrates that were dis­cov­ered in the water sup­ply last week. Res­i­dents were forced to line up to get bot­tle water to drink, cook and brush their teeth with. The city’s water usu­ally comes from the Friant-Kern Canal, but the canal was closed for main­te­nance and the water was instead pumped from nitrate-contaminated irri­ga­tion wells near the city.