DHA provides safety tips for flood houses and water systems on the site

The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) to urge Arkansans take to protect their health and appropriate action, if your home system or into the sewers flooded the square. Flooding and sewer overflows can bacteria, viruses and other organisms that cause disease, included. Houses and other buildings quickly develop mold during floods. In addition, should flooding treatment systems at the site to be cleaned and checked also known as septic systems.

These basic precautions and cleaning tips for your home can help you to stay safe and healthy:

• Avoid skin contact with flood and have cuts and wounds clean and covered.
• Do not allow children to play in flood.
• Do not eat or drink some water flood exposed.
• Do not drink the water from the well until it disinfected and tested.
• Wash hands frequently.
• No contaminated objects that can not be thoroughly cleaned dispose. Things that wet for two days or more, including carpets are often have mold on them, even if you can not see the form. Mold can make the air in your home healthy and affect people with asthma, allergies or other respiratory problems.
• Clean contaminated surfaces with warm soapy water and disinfect with a solution of bleach and water in a cup of bleach to a gallon of water from the water objects. Home disinfecting or cleaning agents can be used for objects that would be damaged by bleach may be used.
• Do not use ammonia. Ammonia vapors mixed with bleach vapors create toxic gases.

Disassembly and cleaning of sewers and flooding is essential. Take the following precautions to avoid injury:

• Turn off the power switch. Air and dry, all electrical appliances and outlets to the water before heading back exposed used.
• If you make sure lines are systems of oil or gas safely and free of cracks.
• When cleaning of sewers and flooding, rubber boots, gloves and a respirator N-95. These protective devices can be found at most hardware stores.
• Open windows if possible to ventilate and dry the area. Fans can contribute to speed up drying.

Most systems in waste water treatment plants are not damaged in the basement and usually by the floods; However, septic tanks and pump chambers to fill with soil and to clean. Follow these instructions:

• Do not use the system while it is covered with water.
• If your system contains electrical components, turn off the circuit breaker or disconnect the system.
• Once the water recedes, do not use the system until the water in the soil absorption area is below the water level in the house.
• Ask your cleaned or serviced by an authorized specialist tank. The containers may contain dangerous germs and gases.

Page 2 of 2 - For more information, visit the water safety of flooding in the site in the ADH www.healthy.arkansas.gov. You can also contact your local health department about Wells water testing and inspection of the septic system.

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