Karen, any problems with WATER?

**Freckles** · 05-02-2010, 11:02 AM

Hopefully Newton is far enough away, but just checking.

**Karen** · 05-02-2010, 01:06 PM

We are in the "must boil water" area, so are using bottled water for teeth brushing, face washing and anything else. We are certainly within the MWDC area - Paul and I know the spot where the break happened, so he went down there and said the sound was amazing, he heard it even before he could see it yesterday afternoon.

**lizbud** · 05-02-2010, 04:55 PM

I was wondering about the water break too. How long till they get it fixed?

**Karen** · 05-02-2010, 05:03 PM

It depends ... as usual. It could be days, or a week or more. I feel sorriest for people with small children.

**wombat2u2004** · 05-02-2010, 06:07 PM

What has happened ??? You all have a water line break or something ???

**Karen** · 05-02-2010, 07:10 PM

We had a huge water main "break" - the pipe didn't break, but the collar connecting two huge pipes that bring water into the city broke. Yesterday there were 8 million gallons of water an hour pouring out of the pipe, fortunately it broke right near the Charles River. Paul took some pictures on the "waterfall" that was created on either side of a footbridge. So right now, about 2 million people in the Boston Metro area have been told they need to boil any tapwater before using it to drink, cook with, or even brush their teeth - what we're getting right now is mostly untreated water from two local reservoirs, and they worry about bacteria from goose poop, deer dropping, etc., in the water.

We have plenty of bottled water, and Paul went a few towns west and picked up some more today, just in case, as it may take days before we can rely on tap-water again.

See: Boston.com for the complete story, Wom!