BRENHAM WATER SUPPLY BEING TREATED FOR TASTE AND SMELL

  

Brenham City Utilities Director Lowell Ogle says the city’s water supply is tasting and smelling bad to many and his department is trying to work on it.

Ogle said in a release today (Thursday), that the city switched from groundwater to surface water in the early 1970s and has battled taste and odor problems since then.  He says the typical problems come from the different types of algae found in Lake Somerville at different times of theyear and the life cycles of these algae.  Sometimes, Ogle says the water tastes like ‘dirt’ to many people.  The city has used many methods over the years to combat this problem and settled on chlorine dioxide in the mid 1990s as the best way  to address it.  

Ogle said that there was a failure in the chlorine dioxide process at Lake Somerville last week.

  He says this allowed raw water to be pumped  from the Lake without the full effect of the chlorine dioxide to control the taste and odor.  He says the problem was repaired and they have been flushing the items throughout the distribution system to move this water out of the system. 

He says the water continues to be safe to drink but it may not be as appealing as normal because of the taste and or odor.

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  1. I visited brenham last week. All the local restaurants said they didn’t see anything wrong with the drink. I could not use ice, water,tea and soft drinks from restaurants. I couldn’t even shower. Something is not right with the water. I love brenham. But I will not return for awhile.

  2. This is so interesting, my neighbor called the city yesterday about this and was told she was the only person who had complained. The city staffer made it seem as if something in the neighbors home was the problem claiming they had experience no other complaints. Meanwhile local facebook pages are full of people complaining about the local water.

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