Austin Water Issues Boil Water Notice

[Ghost of LL 15664]

1 hour ago, futureman said:

 

I bet you selfish fucks didn’t properly drain and clean your boats a couple years ago when all this was taking hold.  and now you show up and bitch about the utility company.  this has nothing to do with austin utilities and everything to do with lazy, entitled boaters. 

I'm far too poor to have a boat.

[freyguy 4364]

Once again, my pool water is safer to drink than my tap water.  The struggle of the Surly 1% is real.

[Chips O'Toole 1407]

1 hour ago, futureman said:

I bet you shellfish fucks didn’t properly drain and clean your boats a couple years ago when all this was taking hold.  and now you show up and bitch about the utility company.  this has nothing to do with austin utilities and everything to do with lazy, entitled boaters. 

fixed.

Edited February 14, 2019 by Chips O'Toole

[bschoolprof 6335]

1 hour ago, Chips O'Toole said:

fixed.

bravo sir.  That's a strong move to the paint.  

[BrazilHorn 6789]

I’ve a water filtration system for house. Never noticed anything. 

No zebra mussel pee made it through. 

[Deej 77665]

I can't help but think the zebra mussel excuse was a cover for some bigger fuckup.

[KaiserSoze 1016]

Like a corpse stuck in the system?

[Guest Lobo]

2 hours ago, Deej said:

I can't help but think the zebra mussel excuse was a cover for some bigger fuckup.

Like after the October surprise, our City leadership is as incompetent as is municipally possible...

[futureman 22664]

2 hours ago, KaiserSoze said:

Like a corpse stuck in the system?

jesus mary and joseph.  I’m never drinking tap water again. 

[Deej 77665]

Just now, futureman said:

jesus mary and joseph.  I’m never drinking tap water again. 

Homeless people gotta die somewhere.

[Deej 77665]

That Elisa Lam case, where she died in the water tank on top of that hotel in L.A. People were complaining about the water tasting funny. Yeesh!

[futureman 22664]

6 minutes ago, Deej said:

That Elisa Lam case, where she died in the water tank on top of that hotel in L.A. People were complaining about the water tasting funny. Yeesh!

I remember that.  nightmare fuel. 

[phdhorn 6224]

11 hours ago, Deej said:

That Elisa Lam case, where she died in the water tank on top of that hotel in L.A. People were complaining about the water tasting funny. Yeesh!

Yeah but at least it was MSG-free.

[MAUFRAIS 6731]

And one hour later they were thirsty for more corpsewater.

[Armybrat 41314]

Dead bodies in lake Travis all the time, not to mention tons of fish shit.

Then poor Bastrop drinks Austin’s treated sewage water laced with the shit of 1.5 million Mexican Freetail bats.

[BradInATX 9208]

Rotten fish water in the 45 again. Great work COA.

[immamac 44198]

I still don't understand why people don't have whole home filtration/softening in COA the water isn't great...

[bschoolprof 6335]

There's absolutely no way the water utility could have foreseen or prepared for this. 

Oh wait, they were warned about this issue 18 months ago by their own employees:

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More than a year before foul-smelling water poured from Austin’s faucets and showers, Mehrdad Morabbi, Austin Water’s operations manager, gave a stark presentation about the invasion of zebra mussels in the Lower Colorado River lake system.

The mollusks had been detected in Lake Travis in June 2017 and two months later, they were found in Lake Austin. With the two lakes that supply Austin’s water system on the verge of infestation, it was a given that the invasive mussels — native to fresh waters in Eurasia — would soon hit the city’s three water treatment plants.

“It is time for us to start rolling into action,” Morabbi told the city’s Water and Wastewater Commission.

Morabbi suggested using a sodium permanganate mitigation system, incorporating a chemical treatment that causes the mussels to detach from treated areas. Estimated to cost $1.1 million, the system — already in use in Dallas and being built at treatment plants that serve Round Rock, Cedar Park and Leander — would require 18 months to design and build. The yet-to-be-built mitigation system will eventually be replaced by a more-permanent safeguard against zebra mussels.

At that $1.1 million price tag, Austin Water could have acted on Morabbi’s recommendation immediately, using a discretionary fund to cover construction and installation. Instead, officials waited 18 months to move forward, and the sodium permanganate system remains unbuilt.

Hey, but we have artists embedded with the watershed department and tons and tons of bike lanes!! Priorities. 

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[Deej 77665]

If someone had told Ann Kitchen those unlicensed zebra mussels might possibly assault and rape unsuspecting swimmers, she would have leapt into action.

Edited March 4, 2019 by Deej

[Guest Lobo]

Nope, the proposed Council review of Austin Water was/is uncalled for/frivolous.  The way they shouted down Troxclair at the time makes me wonder what they knew back then.  

[Orange&White 5563]

14 hours ago, Deej said:

If someone had told Ann Kitchen those unlicensed zebra mussels might possibly assault and rape unsuspecting swimmers, she would have leapt into action.

That's it!! All zebra mussels need to provide fingerprints before they can take up residence in our lakes.

[Bigpoppapump 535]

On Zebra Mussel day, I filled my coffee pot with filtered water from my fridge, then proceeded to cycle it 10 times in my coffee maker until frothy diarrhea wasn't coming out of it.