Homeowners in a Palm Beach County 55-and-up community said they may have been drinking, bathing, and feeding their pets with tainted water for a few days before they were warned of the problem.
People in the Maralago Cay subdivision said it is not the discovery of E. coli in the well water that bothers them, but the fear that they may have been exposed to the bacteria that makes people sick for up to five days.
Homeowners received an alert from Maralago Cay on Monday afternoon. A voicemail informed residents that during the most recent round of testing that occurred on Thursday, April 8, a sample from well 1 failed to meet water quality standards…