Read the full story here Web Link posted Sunday, November 1, 2015, 6:50 PM
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Drought blamed for 'dirt' smell and taste in tap water
Original post made on Nov 2, 2015
Read the full story here Web Link posted Sunday, November 1, 2015, 6:50 PM
Comments (7)
Posted by Yearly Event
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Nov 2, 2015 at 11:04 am
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Nov 2, 2015 at 11:04 am
This is a very common occurrence all over parts of the west that do not get summer rains. It's called fall water taste. Most every town I've lived in dealt with it by Oct.
Posted by Filtration
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Nov 2, 2015 at 2:47 pm
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Nov 2, 2015 at 2:47 pm
I don't drink my tap water. It tastes like a swimming pool.
I use a multistage WaterPik filter on the tap to fill a Pur multistage filtration pitcher. It's slow and annoying, but at least it doesn't taste bad.
Old pipes, contaminated ground water, added chlorine, and now algae.
Posted by Alice & Bill
a resident of Waverly Park
on Nov 2, 2015 at 3:31 pm
a resident of Waverly Park
on Nov 2, 2015 at 3:31 pm
We're in the Los Altos Cal Water district, well water, and our cold tap water tastes and smells faintly of mold and mildew. Has anyone with Cal Water experienced this?
Our hot water does not, so I can't really determine if this is a problem with Cal Water's water or with the cold water pipes in our house.
Posted by Bureaucrats and Cronies
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Nov 3, 2015 at 8:17 am
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Nov 3, 2015 at 8:17 am
The Santa Clara Valley Water District has become known in political circles as the " Golden Spigot" which refers to its extravagant pay, benefits, retirement and generous third-party contracts. The District gets water from various potentially polluted sources and adds unnecessary industrial chemicals. The current "CEO" of the District is a career bureaucrat there. He and some of his fat-cat cronies are finally under investigation. Watch the guy retire and disappear. Corruption may be the true source of the bad smell and taste.
Posted by Aluminum Foil Haberdashery
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Nov 3, 2015 at 9:24 am
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Nov 3, 2015 at 9:24 am
...or, like people have stated, this is a common occurrence all over the west. Not sure SCV Water authority has that much reach. Rethink then reset.
Posted by Mark
a resident of Shoreline West
on Nov 3, 2015 at 2:32 pm
a resident of Shoreline West
on Nov 3, 2015 at 2:32 pm
And this will only get worse if the DELTA TUNNELS are built because more water will be released more quickly so that it gets downstream and into the Delta so that there is plenty of water available to send to the southern San Joaquin Valley for agriculture (an environment that has already been brutally destroyed multiple times by the greed and irresponsibility of the mega-agriculture industry) AND to southern California so that they can keep their swimming pools filled ALL WHILE THE DELTA turns into more of a toxic settling pond than it already is ...
Posted by Yawn
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Nov 3, 2015 at 4:07 pm
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Nov 3, 2015 at 4:07 pm
seems to be the day for off track people and their pet issues.
At least the water taste is not something new...been going on all over the west for many decades this time of year. some worse than others.
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