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Water Boil Advisory

Posted by BD on 2/23/2021, 7:36 am

Our community is under a water boil advisory.

Do you let the students wash their mouthpieces, reeds, etc. at school?

I'm not sure what to do.

Re: Water Boil Advisory

Posted by banddirhdg on 2/24/2021, 8:00 am, in reply to "Water Boil Advisory"

We had school yesterday under a boil water notice. We had all of the water fountains taped up closed. We also told students to bring water bottles of their own. Knowing our school, I'm sure they had some bottled water in the office in case a kid forgot. We're back out of the boil water notice now but I don't think any of our students want to drink from the water fountains anyway.

Re: Water Boil Advisory

Posted by me on 2/23/2021, 10:00 am, in reply to "Water Boil Advisory"

Do not wash instruments or mouthpieces under a boil advisory unless you have bottled water to use or have boiled the water. There's usually a risk for really bad stuff if they advise boiling the water. Maybe use some kind of disinfectant wipe?

Re: Water Boil Advisory

Posted by Herstorian on 2/23/2021, 9:19 am, in reply to "Water Boil Advisory"

So are we but school is cancelled because of the advisory.

Re: Water Boil Advisory

Posted by Concerned on 2/23/2021, 9:04 am, in reply to "Water Boil Advisory"

If your community is under a boil water advisory, I don't see how you legally can have kids in the building. It effectively means your kids should not access running water at ALL without boiling it first except for using toilets.

Your kids should not be using running water pretty much AT ALL without boiling it first, including washing reeds, mouthpieces, or anything else.

Re: Water Boil Advisory

Posted by YoungBlood on 2/23/2021, 8:48 am, in reply to "Water Boil Advisory"

I had the same freak out this morning with a 6th grader dropping their saxophone reed. luckily I keep some bottles of water and she used that to quick rinse it. if you don't have bottled water i'd say keep the mouthpieces and reeds as is, best to be safe overall. if they drop a reed, they can wipe it off with a paper towel or pants leg etc.

Re: Water Boil Advisory

Posted by RR on 2/23/2021, 5:48 pm, in reply to "Re: Water Boil Advisory"

3 second rule?

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