Twitter WV pic: Here's a pic after the "flushing" process. They're telling people it's OK

[TalkingDog]

@iwasaround Here's a pic from my friends house after the "flushing" process. They're telling ppl it's okay! 😳



https://twitter.com/ashmarkee/status/422966787593224192/photo/1

[X_Digger]

1. To be fair, that's what my water normally looked like in WV- high iron content. ;)

[TalkingDog]

2. According to the thread, they're water does not normally look like this.

I have no way to confirm, but reading indicates they do not have an iron problem.

[X_Digger]

4. Just funning. It was always my job as a kid to scrape the orange sludge off the sand filter.

The first time I did my own laundry, I didn't know to use iron-x (or was it iron-out? iron-away?)

All my funderoos were orange.

[Staph]

12. I lived in the Charleston area a couple of years ago.

The water does not normally look like this. Charleston actually has a pretty good-tasting water system, under normal circumstances.

[Tx4obama]

3. Have they opened all the facets in the whole house and flushed out the existing water?

Might take a while for the whole neighborhood to flush out the old water until the good water starts showing up.

[Drew Richards]

5. Theres a back order on gem cutters :)

[X_Digger]

6. I was skeptical when I heard on NPR last night that they were saying 15 minutes of hot would do it..

Not to mention, if the water has been off for days, lots of iron scale may get stirred up when the water heater kicks on.

[Tx4obama]

10. The whole 'hot water tank' and pipes would have old water in it and also the pipes for cold water

... and the pipes running from the street to the house.

Probably would take much more than 15 minutes.

[X_Digger]

11. *nod*, were it me, I'd start with an outside hose bib, close to the meter..

... then work my way back up the house plumbing, going from closest to the service to the furthest away.

[Drahthaardogs]

7. what happens when this hits the septic tank and leech field

Scary

[mindwalker_i]

13. That'll be the shit!

But seriously, what I hope to see come out of this is that people figure out how deregulation personally hits them and makes them miserable. In general, Republican policies hurt them. As long as they are easily swayed by promises of beating up gays and abortionististas, they're screwing themselves over.

[Samantha]

8. I have a small bungalow type place in the panhandle of West Virginia

My water never looked like that. In the last two years, there have been sewer issues because of the age of the system. But never any problem with the drinking or bath water.

After hearing from Rachel there is a 60 mile chemical plume making its way to Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky (this is the original mass from the Elk River that smelled so badly), I think we have a huge problem staring us in the face.

Sam

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. doesnt look good

[progressoid]

14. Done and done!