Update on Hartford’s rotifer/copepod situation
April 24th, 2009
This Q & A in the Hartford Courant has more on those pesky (but not harmful to human health) microscopic organisms.
Orangefield, Texas
April 23rd, 2009
Hartford (and surrounding towns), Connecticut
April 23rd, 2009
NECN.com reports, “The region’s water supplier, The Metropolitan District Commission, is trying to determine why microscopic aquatic organisms called copepods and rotifers have been appearing in water coming out of a water-treatment facility in Bloomfield.” The utility says the organisms aren’t harmful, but they still want customers to boil for a minute. Copepods are tiny crustaceans (observant Jews can drink copepod-containing tap water without filtering it, a New York rabbi decreed several years ago), and rotifers (pictured above) are microscopic creatures found in both fresh and salt water. They have one or more rings of cilia on the anterior end.
The briefest mention
April 22nd, 2009
I’ve been on the road for a bit so haven’t kept up with the boil-water alerts, but believe me, they keep coming — several a day, nationwide. Yesterday was Philly’s turn, and a few areas in Florida, and Charleston, West Virginia.
Overview of a bad situation
April 22nd, 2009
Great piece in the New York Times, Aging of Water Mains Is Becoming Hard to Ignore, which makes the point that pipes of many different ages and materials are all expiring just … about… now. “Everybody’s been looking the other way, and we have this ticking time bomb that’s ready to go off,” said Jim Fouts, the mayor of Warren, Michigan, which had 107 water main breaks during one particularly cold month.
Chilicothe, Ohio
April 15th, 2009
According to the Chillicothe Gazette , a water main has broken and at least one reader isn’t happy about the situation or how it’s been reported. This reader, identified as Gambino14, raises an excellent point in his comment:
“Two weeks ago the city had a problem with either a water or sewage line on Western Avenue in front of Taco Bell. The service was shut down for several hours and this website to the best of my recollection reported no boil advisory notices. Now we have this at Plyleys and it is reported. If I’m wrong, Gazette, correct me, but if I’m right you need to get your act together. I am sick and tired of buying water to drink, wash with, or brush my teeth with while paying the outrageous bill to the city for what should be clean water! Also where are the boil advisory signs which our city should post on roads in the areas that are affected?”
Citrus County, Florida
April 15th, 2009
A water main break triggers a boil water alert for several different neighborhoods in the county, per the Citrus Daily.
