I declare myself anti-water ! Really not a cc thread.

[Historic NY]

Least in my town it smells like fish tank water and it is so bad once you shower the house smells...Imagine sitting over a hydo tank in therapy as you soak your leg in this stuff. Pheeeeeeew!!!!!!!!!

*sorry link not working.

Fishy-smelling water draws some complaints
By Michael Randall
Times Herald-Record

New Windsor – If you've been thinking there's something fishy about the water coming out of your tap lately, it's not just your imagination. There's a definite smell to it, and it's not pleasant. "It smells like dead salmon," said Mary Brown, whose family in Butterhill Estates has been coping with the smell for about a week and a half. "My daughters take showers and they come out smelling like fish."I'm afraid to even drink it," she said.

Town officials said there's nothing unhealthy about the water, but it definitely reeks. For the past two weeks, New Windsor has been drawing water from an emergency backup supply, the City of Newburgh's Brown's Pond reservoir.The town's main water source, New York City's Catskill Aqueduct, was shut down April 4 after several days of heavy rain raised the water's turbidity – the amount of dirt and other impurities in the water.

The aqueduct reopened within a few days, but the turbidity was still too much for the town plant to handle, said John Egitto, the plant's operations engineer. So the town kept pumping water from Brown's Pond. Egitto said a new carbon filtering system installed yesterday should take care of the odor problem in a day or two.

The town has used Brown's Pond before, but only for a few days at most. This time around, the length of time the town's been drawing the water and the growth of algae and weeds in the pond caused the water to develop "that fishy pond smell," Egitto said. After installing the new filters, the town will flush the system in certain areas to remove the smelly water, he said. Egitto said the town also will look at a more permanent solution to avoid the problem in the future.


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