Boil Water Lifted in Ames
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Just announced during press conference, I'm watching it on Ames local channel.
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Can anybody explain this to me? Do they mean run the water until your hot water runs out? It makes no sense to me.
Fully open each faucet in your home from which you access drinking water. When the water turns cold, that indicates it’s coming directly from the water main. To flush water from your hot water heater, turn faucets to hot and run the water until it hot or warm water is being flushed from the tap.
Fully open each faucet in your home from which you access drinking water. When the water turns cold, that indicates it’s coming directly from the water main. To flush water from your hot water heater, turn faucets to hot and run the water until it hot or warm water is being flushed from the tap.
Just turn it on until it runs cold, to insure that it is clean. The water currently in your pipes will be room temperature and is dirty. Cold water indicates clean water. Same with the hot water, turn your faucets to hot and just run it until it turns hot, so that you have flushed all of the dirty water out of your hot and cold pipes.
On the contrary, Ames' city TV channel 12 instructs residents to run your shower on hot until the water turns cold.
I guess - that's what the water dept. head guy said at the 4 pm city presser.
This is the one measure that I doubt will get 100% compliance from those citizens on limited income and worried about the cost of their water heater working that long.
Yeah, that almost seems like a waste. I would just shower in it regular and be sure not to drink any water. If people are that worried, stick a piece of tape over their mouth. :biglaugh:
How to properly flush your water system from the city of Ames
http://cityofames.org/PressReleases/2010/081510ClearPlumbingSystems.pdf
http://cityofames.org/PressReleases/2010/081510ClearPlumbingSystems.pdf
Because you need to flush out all of the water, otherwise the bacteria may just remain in the tank.
1. Run the cold faucet until it runs colder.
2. Turn to hot. Run until it turns cold.
3. Run dishwasher through once without dishes.
4. Empty any ice in a ice maker. Let the ice maker make a couple more batches of ice. Empty again.
After seeing my utility bill for the last month, I think I'll take my chances. Sounds like wasting a lot of money on water and running the dishwasher (since they get hotter than ****) is going to kill 99.9% of bacteria, as will ice because of the extreme cold.
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your freezer may kill some bacteria, but it doesn't get cold enough to kill all of it. bacteria can go into sort of a hibernation and come out just fine when the ice melts.
