Star Tribune Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:53:06 -0500
Edina residents see red over murky water
...she faults the city for not planning ahead to deal with aging pipes. "I understand it's below ground and people don't see it so they don't think of it ... but in the hierarchy of needs, this seems to be at the top of the list," Banker said. Bizily, a physician, said that when she and her husband moved into their house two years ago and noticed the discolored water, neighbors said they'd had it for "eight, nine and 10 years." She bought bottled water, then began driving to her sister's house in Minneapolis once a week to fill water jugs. When her parents came from Duluth for visits, they routinely brought along a 5-gallon jug of water. Bizily's 2-year-old son bathes in the water, and she is expecting her second child in December. As a doctor, she said, "my main concern with the water all along was health and safety." She and Banker paid to have the water tested. Although a high coliform bacteria count turned out to be caused not by the water but by a contaminated faucet, Bizily was unnerved that on her block, the water was low in chlorine. "You do not have the disinfectant there, so it's a prime system for bacterial growth," she said. No one has been sick, she said, though some neighbors say iron in the water has left them constipated.
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