many have asked me "megan, what is a water boil advisory?" I'll tell you.
because of the extremely heavy rain fall in my area, the water companies are having trouble with their instrumentation and our tap water is plagued with "turbidity". Turbidity is when the water is dirty with soil, silt, clay, etc. and has either the chance to be home to microbes or it already is. Therefore, for the safety of their customers, they advise heavily that we do not drink the water or put it in our bodies. We can wash ourselves and our clothes with it, but for drinking, washing dishes, brushing teeth, feeding pets, cooking, you should first boil the water at a rolling boil for one minute, then cool to use. Yeah. The creek by my house, in some areas, has far spilled it's banks. and it rained again this afternoon. Finally, the Susquehanna River hasn't crested either, last time i checked, and has already flooded city island and other areas (city island, sara, is the place we went mini golfing. it's really water golf now!) boo. i love putt putt at city island.
so there you have it. john, if this is wrong, correct me. (he works for the township and knows everything...well...you get what i mean).
i'm peachy.
3 comments:
Water golf?! COOL!
"Turbidity is when the water is dirty with soil, silt, clay, etc. and has either the chance to be home to microbes or it already is." -- technically only the first part of that is true. turbidity is really just a measure of aesthetic. There is a possiblity that turbidity can correlate to bacterial/microbial growth, however that isn't part of the actual definition of turbidity (I think you know this, but the way you wrote it seemed to imply that microbes where tied to the definition of turbidity). The long and short of it is that I haven't boiled any water, and I'm fine.
My bro went up to my aunt's house over that weekend. We had four feet of water in the basement. Fishing was beyond flooded. Two antique dressers, the boiler, a fridge, and lord knows how many canning supplies from the sixties and seventies. On the bright side, at least the paperwork got into FEMA ontime, so we should be getting the government equivalent of a nickel by next year. Oh, and a 44-yr-old bottle of crown royal survived.
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