Austin, Texas, issues precautionary citywide boil water notice

Samples detected high levels of turbidity, or cloudiness, in the water.

All residents and businesses of Texas’ capital city are still being advised to boil tap water before consuming it Monday after a staff error caused the temporary shutdown of the city’s largest treatment plant.

The precautionary citywide boil notice was issued Saturday by the utility Austin Waters due to high turbidity, or cloudiness, detected in the water at its Ullrich Water Treatment Plant.

"We all need to do our part when something like this happens, and we will. We can also be frustrated, as I am, that there's yet another situation to deal with," Austin Mayor Steve Adler said in a statement.

The boil notice will be over once water samples show no quality issues and The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality lifts the notice. Sampling began Monday and it takes 24 hours to receive the results, according to Austin Water.