<p>In some parts, it was apparently normal all along, but local authorities did not tell tax paying residents. Many businesses lost ton of money,…for nothing, restaurants were closed, pools drained. What a shame!! </p>
<p>That is a waste of water & money.
Reminds me of when Portland was going to drain their reservoirs because someone peed in it.</p>
<p>RE: the restaurants closing, pools drained (did that actually happen? private pools?) I understood that tests weren’t conclusive and that those suburbs were erring on the side of caution. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t!!!</p>
<p>As I said earlier, these situations bring out the best and the worst in people. </p>
<p>Our state will be hit with two major storms/hurricanes over the next few days. People have been going crazy stocking up. The news featured one woman who bought 28 CASES of water! People are reporting price gouging of up to $40 for a case of water! It’s really unfortunate, especially since we live on islands and folks will remember who jacked up prices during times of trouble.</p>
<p>The water bottlers are selling direct to consumers at their regular prices and doing a thriving business, much more than usual. I wonder what all these folks will do with all their water once the storms pass. Hurricane season here lasts until 11/30, and storing 28 cases of water for all those months is more than we could do.</p>
<p>Anyway, back to the Toledo situation. Glad it seems to be improving, but sad that there seems some disagreement about what was needed and what wasn’t, and how safe the water currently is!</p>
<p>Best of luck with the storms HImom - are you in a saf(er) area??? </p>
<p>Yes- thinking of you, HImom.</p>
<p>I can understand watching lake levels for nasties and making predictions, glad it is resolved in Toledo.</p>
<p>Yes, our home has never been flooded since it was built over 60 years ago and is many blocks from the ocean. So far, it has been very calm and now there is some wind. I do not live on the Big Island nor on Maui, the two islands who are supposed to get the brunt of the storm. Everyone has been recommended to stay indoors and shelter in place. There was quite a run on water recently, but otherwise things are pretty OK. We also have had some long lines for gas, particularly on the islands where the storms are expected to be worst.</p>
<p>Folks seem pretty calm. Did vote on Wednesday, walk in, because they were encouraging everyone to do so as no one is sure there will be polls open on Saturday, which is supposed to be our primary election.</p>
<p>“RE: the restaurants closing, pools drained (did that actually happen? private pools?) I understood that tests weren’t conclusive and that those suburbs were erring on the side of caution. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t!!!”
- Well the article was saying that the tests were very conclusing, no caution, they shut down the valve, period, the test were not positive at any point of time in some areas. Inconclusive results were from the other areas, they were actually a bit above norm, so nobody was wrong there, Toledo mayor did everything correctly, but some others did not.
it should not bring “the best and the worst”, it should bring the cool headed REASON. People are paying tons of taxes not to be misinformed, not to be punished, but to get a thruthful information from those who they elect to protect their interests. </p>
<p>“The best and the worst” = citizens. That’s who I’m talking about. </p>
<p>I heard today they are asking Toledo residents to conserve water but I didn’t really understand why. I thought it sounded like the less water used, the better the chemicals would work somehow? That maybe they’d have more time to resolve the issues if there was less water being used? </p>
<p>It sound like our water treatment plant is and has been in BAD shape. Earlier they were having us conserve water because their was a failure at the plant (something beyond the tainted water - after that). Now they are asking no one to water lawns, only do full loads of wash, no washing cars at home etc. And this is the reasoning:</p>
<p>Less demand means a slower flow rate and will allow chemicals used to neutralize algae to work as water makes its way through the city’s multistaged treatment system.</p>
<p>“It gives chemicals more time to take effect and allows the plant to produce better water,”</p>
<p>Read more at <a href=“Mayor tells water users to conserve all summer | The Blade”>Mayor tells water users to conserve all summer | The Blade;
<p>Not to keep the topic alive, but also it came out this week that the state warned the city in June that we were headed for a water catastrophe - but apparently not much action was taken. </p>