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Citywide Boil water notice 10/22/18

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7:40a, 10/22/18
AG
I figure you've all seen this, but just in case:

http://www.kut.org/post/austin-issues-city-wide-boil-water-notice
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8:04a, 10/22/18
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Yep. And like clockwork the crazies already bought out the grocery store bottled water.
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In reply to tailgatetimer10 • 8:08a, 10/22/18
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They ruin the drinking capability of our city water to maintain pressure for fire services. Makes me wonder why not lower pressure a bit but I know we haven't come to that. At some point (and we won't get there ) if this was to last a week, I'd prioritize drinking water over putting out a fire or two.
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In reply to evan_aggie • 8:17a, 10/22/18
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evan_aggie said:
They ruin the drinking capability of our city water to maintain pressure for fire services. Makes me wonder why not lower pressure a bit but I know we haven't come to that. At some point (and we won't get there ) if this was to last a week, I'd prioritize drinking water over putting out a fire or two.


But hey, they warned the public last week to minimize water usage!!

Not sure they portrayed the urgency to conserve at all, actually
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In reply to tailgatetimer10 • 9:19a, 10/22/18
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tailgatetimer10 said:
Yep. And like clockwork the crazies already bought out the grocery store bottled water.
I stopped at 3 places on the way to work after dropping off my daughter that were sold out of everything but fancy water. Figured HD was an easy stop but St. Davids had already agreed to buy all of their water.

Good thing we keep a few cases on hand at home for emergencies.
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9:25a, 10/22/18
after I told my wife about the boil notice, she responded, "what about the dogs? We probably shouldn't give them tap water either."

i laughed at her and reminded her that they were drinking brown stagnant water at the dog park yesterday.

for a smart girl, she says some dumb sheet sometimes.
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In reply to AggieOO • 9:36a, 10/22/18
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I can't blame her, I paused for a second before filling the lab dog's bowl this morning from the tap.
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In reply to Aggietaco • 10:17a, 10/22/18
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Same here.

Still sucks at work. No coffee for now, as I only brought water to drink
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10:20a, 10/22/18
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I filled dog bowls with water from fridge filter.
I've also had some from our water fountain at work. It tastes slightly off but clear enough.
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10:46a, 10/22/18
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Was quite annoying to not have coffee made when I got to the office.
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11:42a, 10/22/18
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Made coffee this morning and then nuked it for 5 minutes. Tastes... great.
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In reply to AggieOO • 1:08p, 10/22/18
AggieOO said:
after I told my wife about the boil notice, she responded, "what about the dogs? We probably shouldn't give them tap water either."

i laughed at her and reminded her that they were drinking brown stagnant water at the dog park yesterday.

for a smart girl, she says some dumb sheet sometimes.

My dog chowed down on a turd this morning. She's gettin tap.
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8:00p, 10/22/18
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Are y'all washing dishes with the water? Older house, no electric washer, running out of sink space for dishes.
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In reply to rather be fishing • 8:18p, 10/22/18
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Scored paper plates, bowls and plastic utensils and cups on the way home. Surprisingly, people hadn't cleaned those out. I imagine by tomorrow they will be scarce if the situation persists.
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In reply to HECUBUS • 8:19p, 10/22/18
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I also bought all the beer.
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9:10p, 10/22/18
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Washed with hot tap water and then rinsed with boiled water.
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9:13p, 10/22/18
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I just boiled a bunch of water and threw it in the fridge. Good to go for the next couple of days
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10:10p, 10/22/18
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The taste is not great, but I pulled down my big stock pot and we've boiled a couple pots.
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7:07a, 10/23/18
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To make things worse, all the crazies in neighboring towns freaked out about the boil water notice too. Round Rock had to put out a PSA that they are not under a boil water notice.
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8:47a, 10/23/18
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Funny how they waited to announce this until AFTER F1 was done... Not that anything has changed in the city since Sunday water wise... except the extra 100K or so people that were here for F1 left...

Fortunately, Pflugerville and Round Rock don't get their water from the City of Austin.
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9:04a, 10/23/18
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It's been 2 days without clean water
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9:07a, 10/23/18
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Hell, I would venture this water is cleaner than 75% of the worlds drinking water. It tastes better today than yesterday.
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In reply to rather be fishing • 9:39a, 10/23/18
rather be fishing said:
Are y'all washing dishes with the water? Older house, no electric washer, running out of sink space for dishes.
you can dilute a little bleach in a sink full of water for your rinse water.
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9:47a, 10/23/18
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Now saying 10-14 days before the warning is removed.

Good thing the leaders in Austin focused on plastic bags, straws, and soccer teams.

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9:50a, 10/23/18
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Yep and these same leaders want Amazon here...
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In reply to 96ags • 10:02a, 10/23/18
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96ags said:
Now saying 10-14 days before the warning is removed.

Good thing the leaders in Austin focused on plastic bags, straws, and soccer teams.



Where's this posted? Would like to read and share
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In reply to tailgatetimer10 • 10:03a, 10/23/18
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tailgatetimer10 said:
96ags said:
Now saying 10-14 days before the warning is removed.

Good thing the leaders in Austin focused on plastic bags, straws, and soccer teams.



Where's this posted? Would like to read and share
Spokesman for the city just said in Travis County Commissioners court
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In reply to 96ags • 10:11a, 10/23/18
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96ags said:
Now saying 10-14 days before the warning is removed.

Good thing the leaders in Austin focused on plastic bags, straws, and soccer teams.


What do any of those have to do with historical flooding?
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10:17a, 10/23/18
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Keep in mind, Adler is up for re-election right now, as are many of your City Council representatives.
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10:17a, 10/23/18
Hopefully local businesses can put pressure on the Austin govt to build more water treatment plants so this crap doesn't happen again. A lot of restaurants are closed right now and losing money.
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In reply to Potcake • 10:24a, 10/23/18
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Potcake said:
96ags said:
Now saying 10-14 days before the warning is removed.

Good thing the leaders in Austin focused on plastic bags, straws, and soccer teams.


What do any of those have to do with historical flooding?
They take up time and resources that apparently should have been spent on infrastructure.

Town lake, where the cities water is drawn from, didn't really see "historic flooding" just higher than normal turbidity.
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In reply to 96ags • 10:37a, 10/23/18
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96ags said:
Potcake said:
96ags said:
Now saying 10-14 days before the warning is removed.

Good thing the leaders in Austin focused on plastic bags, straws, and soccer teams.


What do any of those have to do with historical flooding?
They take up time and resources that apparently should have been spent on infrastructure.

Town lake, where the cities water is drawn from, didn't really see "historic flooding" just higher than normal turbidity.


Exactly.

Let's send out another bond for hiking trails, side walks and bike lanes.
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In reply to 96ags • 10:40a, 10/23/18
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Where do you think the floodwaters, and siltload, from upstream have been flowing through? It's the heavy siltload that is causing the problem. You're complaining that treatment plants weren't upgraded to handle periodic heavy siltloads yet you probably vote against every bond issue as well. Can't have it both ways.
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10:45a, 10/23/18
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I stopped at Walmart in Elgin on the way home for a few odds and ends and the Austin locusts has stripped the store clean of bottled water by Monday afternoon.

I'm pretty sure they bought all the bread and bleach too, just in case.
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In reply to Potcake • 10:49a, 10/23/18
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Potcake said:
Where do you think the floodwaters, and siltload, from upstream have been flowing through? It's the heavy siltload that is causing the problem. You're complaining that treatment plants weren't upgraded to handle periodic heavy siltloads yet you probably vote against every bond issue as well. Can't have it both ways.


Why are bonds always the solution to city infrastructure upgrades? Increased property values and additional homes have added $54m a year to CoA and rather than use it to improve things like water treatment or local roads, they've already earmarked it for affordable housing.
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