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Houston Independent School District classes resume after city-wide boil notice closures
HISD is back on after boil notice closures.
With the boil notice finally lifted for Houston and many surrounding areas on Tuesday, November 29, life is returning to normal.
For Houston Independent School District students who've been enjoying time off since classes were cancelled late Sunday, November 27 through Tuesday, that means it's back to school.
All HISD schools, offices, and facilities will resume normal operations Wednesday, November 30, the district announced. To ease parents' minds about health concerns, HISD has begun work sanitizing and preparing facilities.
HISD maintenance and nutrition services personnel have begun flushing, cleaning, and sanitizing water fountains, pipes, faucets, and equipment with waterline connections, according to the district. This also includes replacing water filters at water bottle filling stations district-wide.
"The health and safety of our students remains our top priority and we look forward to resuming in person instruction," a district email to media reads. "The district does not anticipate the need to make up the prior two days as it has banked instructional minutes built into the academic calendar ever year."
All this comes as the boil notice that affected more than 2.6 million residents was finally lifted on Tuesday. As CultureMap reported, the lift came as Houston Water confirmed that it had taken the necessary corrective actions to restore the quality of the water distributed by this public water system used for drinking water or human consumption.
Water quality testing submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has confirmed that tap water meets all regulatory standards and is safe to drink, according to a City of Houston press release. The cause, however, is still being investigated.
As a reminder, those at home should should flush water systems by running cold-water faucets for at least one minute, cleaning automatic ice makers by making and discarding several batches of ice, and running water softeners through a regeneration cycle
