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Old 12-11-2009, 06:06 PM
 
Location: Austin
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City of Austin - Water Treatment Plant



Note that all of Austin's water treatment plants are on the West side of town, uphill from Austin.

Actually, Austin's water supply is less polluted then most Cities because there are no large Cities and few industries upstream to pollute the river.

Some of the water flowing into the river is aquifer water, such as what flows out of Barton Springs and down into Town Lake. I'm sure there are some other small hill country springs that contribute to the water in the Colorado River, like Krause Springs, but by far the most of it is surface run off.
Well, I suppose you technically can filter most things out of the water, but, with the statements on here per the smell of tapwater, and the look, you wonder what they are missing....

BTW, my tapwater in my apartment in north austin in 07 had lots of floaters, little white thingies that were dispersed throughout the glass, and it tasted like scum......I often wonder what was in that, now that I read all these posts...
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Old 12-12-2009, 02:02 AM
 
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No kiddin'?

Looks like I'll be buying distilled water from HEEB for my coffee/drinking water from now on!
Seems like it would be much more economical, not to mention more ecologically sound, to filter the tap water, either whole house or under the sink. Lots of people in Austin do that, I understand. Do most people find that an acceptable alternative?
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Old 12-12-2009, 05:26 AM
 
Location: Austin
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Seems like it would be much more economical, not to mention more ecologically sound, to filter the tap water, either whole house or under the sink. Lots of people in Austin do that, I understand. Do most people find that an acceptable alternative?
After seeing "floaters" in the water, and tasting the scum-like residue, I really would rather get fresh spring water(not the danali filterered tap water crap pepsico sells, but real spring water), in gallons from Heeb....

I believe Austin has one of the highest usages of Hinckley/Schmitt type delivery services per capita, so sounds like many folks are going that route here as well...
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Old 12-12-2009, 10:51 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Austin's water is perfectly safe. But I know lots of people have a strange paranoia about drinking water, thus all the bottled water sales, which are now shown to be dangerous because of the plastics they contain.

I feel safe drinking the Austin water, but we do filter it at the refrigerator otherwise lime deposites clog up the ice maker. So we also take most of our drinking water from the water tap on the refrigerator, since it has no oder. The City website says:

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City of Austin - Index
The drinking water provided to you in 2008 met all national and state water quality standards.
Additional information on test results can be found in the tables in the What's in the Water web page. EPA requires water systems to test up to 97 constituents. Only those found are reported here, all others are not detected.
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Old 12-12-2009, 10:48 PM
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Location: Knoxville, TN
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Cities with best and worst tap water | Yahoo! Green

Found this link today on yahoo! Austin is rated in top 10 for tap water! Interesting...given several peoples opinions on how bad the water is here...
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Old 12-13-2009, 06:13 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Cities with best and worst tap water | Yahoo! Green

Found this link today on yahoo! Austin is rated in top 10 for tap water! Interesting...given several peoples opinions on how bad the water is here...
I would not expect anything less.

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Old 12-13-2009, 06:50 PM
 
Location: Austin
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oh boy, another top 10 list for Austin!....Austin might be the first metro famous for being ON top 10 lists, with top ten lists actually responsible for much of its growth/notoriety....unfortunately, it is really akin to being famous for BEING famous, ala Paris Hilton or Corey Feldman...

What happens when Austin stops appearing on top ten lists? Will it fall off the face of the earth? Implode? One can only imagine the possiblilities!
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Old 12-14-2009, 09:29 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX!!!!
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Corey Feldman earned fame through "Stand by Me" and "Goonies" - not in the same vein as Paris Hilton at all.
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Old 12-14-2009, 09:40 AM
 
Location: In the sticks of Colorado County
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Not to worry. I saw a listing of top 10 performing high schools last week. IIRC it was from US News & World Report. Austin, and surrounding bedroom bergs, did not place.

On the water issue, we've only noticed "pond water" smells when filling a bathtub or running a shower at certain times of the year. The big box and local hardware stores all sell complete kits for adding a filtered water tap to a sink. We bought the individual components considerably cheaper at the same store and the filtered water has no off flavors or smells at all.

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oh boy, another top 10 list for Austin!....Austin might be the first metro famous for being ON top 10 lists, with top ten lists actually responsible for much of its growth/notoriety....unfortunately, it is really akin to being famous for BEING famous, ala Paris Hilton or Corey Feldman...

What happens when Austin stops appearing on top ten lists? Will it fall off the face of the earth? Implode? One can only imagine the possiblilities!
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Old 12-14-2009, 10:30 AM
 
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Cities with best and worst tap water | Yahoo! Green

Found this link today on yahoo! Austin is rated in top 10 for tap water! Interesting...given several peoples opinions on how bad the water is here...
The water is definitely bad. Where I live now isnt as bad as I have had it in Austin (I can drink straight out of the tap most of the time) but sometimes the water does smell. Sometimes it smells very strongly of chemicals, sometimes it smells musty like dirt.

At our office though it isnt acceptable.
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