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Topic: Middeltown Water
Posted By: Hermes
Subject: Middeltown Water
Date Posted: Dec 28 2009 at 9:50am
Has anyone noticed a problem with the city water ? The water in my house has an "acidic" taste. We have no filtering system on the line nor on the faucet itself. What is interesting is if you "boil" the water on the stove. The boiled water smells so bad it will gag you,it doesn't smell like this straight out of the faucet,just when it's boiled.
 
Anyone have any ideas as to why boiled water would smell and taste so badly ?


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Posted By: wasteful
Date Posted: Dec 28 2009 at 9:53am
Boiled some last night and didn't have any problems or odor.

Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Dec 28 2009 at 10:31am
Middletown water is loaded with flouride. The pH is usually around 7.0 which is fairly neutral as to acidity/alkalinity. Other than that, it comes from the aquifer below us and has always tasted ok. Perhaps someone got a little "over zealous" with the chemicals at the old water dept.????

Posted By: Hermes
Date Posted: Dec 28 2009 at 12:43pm
Well I thought it could be my pipes as well. But I was boiling water for hot chocolate and noticed it smelled very bad,but I have 2 filtering water jugs in the fridge and used water from one of them and the smell and taste was ok. As long as it's filtered apperantly it's alright,but unfiltered it's pretty nasty.

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Posted By: Upper90
Date Posted: Dec 28 2009 at 4:20pm
Depending on what type of disinfection process they use it could be any number of things. Certain chlorines react with micro fibers in homes and give off cat urine type odors. Happens most typically with new carpet, new furniture, etc and eventually goes away shortly. There may also have been some sort of sulfur byproduct in the water and you made it airborne with the heat. I believe Middletown uses a very tried and trusted treatment system, very little chemicals except some coagulants and government mandated chlorine and flouride. We are blessed to live over the Great Miami Aquifer.

Posted By: viper771
Date Posted: Dec 28 2009 at 5:03pm
From what I hear, Middletown has the best water around...better than Frankin and Monroe. I think it tastes ok, though I never tried to boil any yet.


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