'Boil-water' order issued for nearly 2 million in Mass.

[babsbunny]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/05/catastrophic_le.html

May 1, 2010 08:45 PM

By Martin Finucane, Beth Daley, and John M. Guilfoil, Globe Staff, and Sean Teehan and Caitlin Castello, Globe Correspondents

A major pipe bringing water to the Boston area has sprung a "catastrophic" leak and is dumping eight million gallons of water per hour into the Charles River. Governor Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency and issued a "boil-water" order for Boston and dozens of other communities.

"The water is not suitable for drinking. ... All residents in impacted communities should boil drinking water before consuming it," he said at a news conference this afternoon.

[virgogal]

1. We'll manage. Looking at the big picture this is an inconvenience at most.

[midnight armadillo]

2. I have town water

so this doesn't effect me. In fact my town water is stupidly cheap, I pay under $30/mo.

However, the MWRA despite its cost generally strikes me as having its shit together. Leaks happen. I wonder if the various pipes were stressed in the wake of the recent flooding and ridiculous rainstorms?

[virgogal]

4. Lucky you. This entire thing is new for me,but it's better than a large

power failure.

I've been MWRA "forever" and have never had problems.

[pipoman]

3. Too bad the only problems we have right now

don't all involve dumping of clean water into water.