Sludge runs out of Napier taps over the weekend 10 Dec, 2018 10:41am 2 minutes to read Coffee.
Tea.
Ink.
That is how Napier residents are describing the water which came out of their taps at the weekend.
One resident Chris Baylis , said the water was bad enough she would not let her granddaughter bath in it.
"I haven’t seen any public statement from them acknowledging there is a problem and what they are doing about it."
"It would be great if you can direct this water into gardens, so it won’t go to waste."
"If the problem persists, call our service centre on 06 835 7579.
However, residents did not believe water mains cleaning was causing the problem.
However, council denied that cruise ships were the cause of the problem.

When service lines break near his home, Wilburn said the tap water can be muddy for days at a time.
Years of frequent boil water advisories and sometimes long stints of dirty water have gutted people’s trust in their tap water.
Alex Slitz aslitz@herald-leader.com Wilburn is a customer of Cawood Water District, which serves about 1,600 houses and businesses in Harlan County.
“If you’re over the number of (disinfection byproducts), then you’ve got to bring that down.” Safe Water Drinking Act Violations since 2008 Chart: Will Wright and John Stamper Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Get the data f in Since January 2016, water samples collected from the Martin County Water District have exceeded Safe Water Drinking Act limits for disinfection byproducts at least 12 times, according to data provided by the Kentucky Division of Water.
Cawood Water District has been in violation of the Safe Water Drinking Act every quarter for the last three years for violating public notice regulations, but not for water quality, according to EPA records.
‘It’s a basic human right’ In many areas, dirty tap water is the result of broken service lines and irregular pressure, but some residents in Martin County also fear residual effects from a coal slurry spill in 2000, when 250 million gallons of toxic sludge poured into the Tug Fork river.
The river remains the sole source of water for the Martin County Water District, which serves about 3,500 homes and businesses in the county.
“Water should be clear and odorless, and that’s something we don’t have here, and haven’t for a very long time,” Maynard said.
“People get aggravated with us when we put on the boil water (advisories), but you know, that’s a precaution,” she said.
I always used it.” Though she trusts the water, Pace said water districts throughout the region face major infrastructure issues that lead to outages, and those outages can impact people’s health and way of life.

As 50,000 students returned to Detroit Public Schools earlier this month, they found themselves without running water.
Read more Blade editorials According to a July report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, 43 percent of the country’s school districts had tested for lead in 2017.
Of those districts, 37 percent found “elevated levels” of lead in the water.
Fifty-seven percent of school districts, serving more than 35 million students nationwide, either had not tested for lead in the past two years or did not know if they had tested.
Replacing pipes is an expensive process, however, and budgetary restraints have prevented many schools from rectifying the problem.
But there are cost-effective ways to improve the situation, such as more frequent flushings of a school’s water lines.
This can be an expensive process as well — a statewide test in Indiana cost $4.7 million — but this should be money well spent if it keeps drinking water safe for school children.
State Sen. Art Haywood, D-Montgomery, said he had wanted the testing requirement to be mandatory, but others were concerned about the cost.
“My position is that the cost to our communities and our children of having the lead ingested is a much higher cost than doing testing,” Mr. Haywood told WHYY in Philadelphia.
Precautionary measures like flushing a water line or testing lead levels prevents a situation in which children are denied access to drinking water or, worse, ingest contaminants that could threaten their lives.

Image Lead contamination has been an ongoing crisis in New York City’s public housing, and the Education Department said on Tuesday that it continues to be an issue in schools as well.
About 25 percent of the city’s 1,500 schools now have at least one water fixture with elevated lead levels, down from 83 percent of schools last year.
The remaining 435 water sources, which were used for cooking or drinking, have been turned off, Miranda Barbot, an Education Department spokeswoman, said.
The first stage of testing was completed in 2017.
The de Blasio administration has been criticized in the last few months for its handling of lead paint in its deteriorating public housing.
Though the city had previously said 19 children in public housing had tested positive for elevated levels of lead, the city’s Department of Health said that 820 children younger than 6 living in Nycha housing had elevated levels of lead.
Earlier this year, federal prosecutors found that “accountability often does not exist” at the beleaguered housing authority.
At some of the schools in the city’s report, more fixtures were found to be contaminated in the latest round of testing.
There are 27 fixtures with elevated lead levels at Harry S. Truman High School in the Baychester section of the Bronx, but only 11 water sources were found to have high levels of lead when they were first tested in early 2017.
At I.S 104 in Manhattan, 25 water sources tested above the lead threshold in the latest round of testing, but just three water sources had elevated lead when the school was tested in January 2017.

It remains unclear when the Aberdeen School District will turn drinking faucets back on at four schools the state found to have slightly elevated lead concentrations.
Superintendent Alicia Henderson said state officials are working to expedite final results by next week.
“Once those results are known, we can determine next steps,” said Henderson, who added that more voluntary testing is being done this week before final results come back.
“We’re really working to establish what’s the source of the lead.” In final test results, Henderson said the district would know whether it’s the faucets themselves or water pipes connecting to them that are causing the increased lead and would need to be replaced.
Last week, the district turned off faucets after receiving preliminary results from the Washington Department of Health’s voluntary lead tests.
It found that the Hopkins Building (Harbor High), Central Park, Stevens and A.J.
Bottled water In the meantime, safe drinking water has been made available to students with either bottled water or access to the clean and more newly-built water bottle filling stations.
These schools’ kitchens were also given clean water for cooking.
“We welcome the questions that have been posed by staff and community members and thank everyone for understanding the solution will not occur overnight,” said Henderson.
“We will continue to share information as it becomes available.”

But in some Eastern Kentucky counties, authorities are begging people not to do that because of serious water shortages that have left many people with no water at all.
Perry County and Clay County have also had residents going without water.
Customers of the Manchester Water Department in Clay County have been experiencing water problems for more than a week.
Debbie Bowling, of Oneida in Clay County, said Saturday marked a week that her home had not had water.
Jackson said about 1,500 Clay County residents have had water shortages over the past week because of broken water lines and a drain on the county water supply as many residents kept water flowing in their homes to prevent frozen pipes.
“We’re in much better shape,” Jackson said Saturday afternoon.
As water was being restored to more and more residents, the water department asked that people continue to conserve water so holding tanks could fill.
Jackson said local government has distributed bottled water to many residents during the shortages.
If you have had freeze-ups before, and if you feel it is absolutely necessary to prevent freezing of pipes, you should reduce the flow from a single faucet to a slow continuous drip, but only during periods when water is not otherwise being used in the household.” City engineer Hank Spaulding explained in the post that “when a significant number of the 9,000 customers run faucets continuously, even at low flow levels, the resulting extra demand quickly exceeds the water plant’s excess capacity and rapidly depletes the system’s storage capacity causing outages.” Joe Tapio, who works for the city’s water distribution system, said Saturday that the situation is improving, but with a cold front on the way, that could change.
“We are starting to supply people,” he said.

Ohio school districts in the past year and a half have tested drinking fountains and faucets inside hundreds of older buildings, finding that about 10 percent of the fixtures had elevated levels of lead in the water, state records show.
About half of the kitchen and classroom faucets and drinking fountains have been replaced while the others have been simply shut off or are no longer used.
"You take for granted the safety of water when you walk up to a drinking fountain," said Dustin Boswell, the business manager for Springfield schools near Akron, which found more than two dozen classroom and custodian faucets over the limit.
Most of the Ohio school buildings tested did not have any fixtures with high lead levels.
Overall, most of the school buildings needed to replace just one, two or three fixtures.
Just nine of Ohio’s 20 largest school districts took the state up on its offer to test the fixtures in some of its buildings, according to data provided by the commission.
The state’s biggest — Columbus — tested the fixtures in only three of its buildings while Cincinnati and Toledo didn’t check fixtures in any of its schools that qualified for the grants, the state’s records showed.
I thought we were going to replace 200 water fountains," said Rob Boxler, director of facility services for Akron schools.
He said he was aware about the dangers of lead pipes but didn’t know problems also could be traced to drinking fountains and faucets until the grants became available.
Cleveland began making plans to test its buildings several months before the state announced it would reimburse public and private schools, said Patrick Zohn, the district’s chief operating officer.

Startup of the Week: Tern Water to Tackle the Drinking Water Crisis Faucet by Faucet.
Start Date: Early 2016 One Sentence Pitch: Products and services to help users get access to smart, sustainable, and healthy water.
The team’s first clean water awareness project—“Know Your Water”—is already underway.
Mo Zerban, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of Tern Water, has been working on sustainable innovation since his high school years in Alexandria, Egypt.
“I realized that there is a bigger awareness problem than there is a technology problem,“ says Zerban.
So far, Tern has tested over 200 Know Your Water capsules during the service’s pilot phase, and expects many more customers once they begin to aggressively publicize the project in the coming weeks.
The tests allow the company to construct a database of private water supplies in the area, provided by the people who will likely become their first customers when the Tern Faucet is available for sale.
“[Know Your Water] is helping us directly understand what the consumers want.” What consumers want, explains Zerban – citing the years-long tragedy over undetected lead in the Flint, Michigan drinking water – is reassurance.
He wants his startup to provide a means to both.
Tern comes from the word “pattern,” “and at Tern,” explains Zerban, “we are working to keep clean water in the normal pattern of life.”

Startup of the Week: Tern Water to Tackle the Drinking Water Crisis Faucet by Faucet.
Start Date: Early 2016 One Sentence Pitch: Products and services to help users get access to smart, sustainable, and healthy water.
The team’s first clean water awareness project—“Know Your Water”—is already underway.
Mo Zerban, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of Tern Water, has been working on sustainable innovation since his high school years in Alexandria, Egypt.
“I realized that there is a bigger awareness problem than there is a technology problem,“ says Zerban.
So far, Tern has tested over 200 Know Your Water capsules during the service’s pilot phase, and expects many more customers once they begin to aggressively publicize the project in the coming weeks.
The tests allow the company to construct a database of private water supplies in the area, provided by the people who will likely become their first customers when the Tern Faucet is available for sale.
“[Know Your Water] is helping us directly understand what the consumers want.” What consumers want, explains Zerban – citing the years-long tragedy over undetected lead in the Flint, Michigan drinking water – is reassurance.
He wants his startup to provide a means to both.
Tern comes from the word “pattern,” “and at Tern,” explains Zerban, “we are working to keep clean water in the normal pattern of life.”

Conway Rec bracing for another summer of bottled water.
CONWAY — The summer program started Wednesday at the Conway Recreation Department and for the second year in a row, kids are being told not to drink the water in the Center Conway building.
Last year, 246 children from Albany and Conway participated in the six-week program.
Eastman had 220 pre-register this spring.
Campers are encouraged to bring their own water bottles.
"Please be advised all recreation participants and staff should not drink the water that comes from any of our faucets within the Conway Recreation Department Building," the signs state.
"Clean water will be supplied in our water jug for all programs outside on the bleachers and for all teen center participants."
Town Manager Earl Sires said the building, which once served as the Pine Tree School, needs work.
"The gymnasium is not insulated (using 400-500 gallons of heating fuel every two weeks).
"It’s a combination where we’re outgrowing it, and the facility itself we buttoned it down for 15 years, but now we’ve got to the 15 years," Sires continued.