‘Thousands of dollars that just my little business lost’ City of Ventura dials back on emergency water contamination alert

VENTURA, Calif. — The City of Ventura is working to clear up confusion over whether water there was contaminated with gasoline.

A warning went out to residents in the Pierpont neighborhood, instructing them to “not use the tap water.”

But the “do not use order” was later dialed back, with city leaders saying the sample test was a “false positive.”…

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