There have been great things about living in the country and then there has been this. This is a bathtub of "clean" water. The last 2 years our water has been really bad in May and June. This year it got to its all time worst and it got the attention of everyone that uses rural water as well as the newspaper, news channel and health department. After much testing they determined that it posed no health risk (gross), it was from deposits being knocked off the pipes due to extremely high usage these times of year. So pretty much the pipes are super old and have lots of deposits on the inside of them and due to so many new houses and so much more water usage all these deposits were making their way into our water in our homes. I was super grossed out by this and annoyed that I couldn't wash white items in the laundry, the toilets had black rings around the bowl, I was bathing my kids in pond water and it wasn't usable out of the faucet. Robb installed a whole house water filter for us and they came out many times to flush our water lines to try to improve things. It did eventually get better but we also got put on an outside water ban for all of June and water restrictions every April- Sept after that.
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