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Worms infest Houston suburb water supply
Houston Chronicle ^ | Thursday, July 30, 2015 | Dylan Baddour,

Posted on 07/30/2015 2:25:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin

No one seems to know how worms got in the tap water, but residents in Old River-Winfree, a town of about 1,400 just 25 miles east of Houston, are drinking from bottles this week.

On Monday evening, the first residents of the Woodlands Acres Subdivision showed up at city offices with containers full of water and small red worms they say came out of their faucets, sprinklers and shower heads. Three days and dozens of reports later, Mayor Joe Landry said "people are not taking chances."

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She said this type of contamination can occur from backflow into pipes or breaches in storage tanks, but the causes for the current episode remain unknown. Just how long it will take to correct it, she said, depends on the extent of the problem.

In the meantime, residents have taken to a Facebook page for the Woodland Acres Subdivision to collaborate and vent. They're sharing information about bottled water and showers available to the community, reporting on utility efforts to inspect or flush water systems and offering tips on how to recover from the slimy infestation.

"My daughter showed me a screen on a sprinkler with worms in it," wrote one user on the Woodland acres subdivision Facebook page. "After a couple of more days of chlorination, and these things die out, clean your faucet aerators and washing machine hose screens."

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: houston; water; watersupply; worms
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1 posted on 07/30/2015 2:25:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Ewww.


2 posted on 07/30/2015 2:30:27 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: BenLurkin

They look like tubifex worms:

” Tubifex tubifex, also called the sludge worm, or sewage worm, is a species of tubificid segmented worm that inhabits the sediments of lakes and rivers on several continents. Wikipedia “

They better check for some rather nasty bacteria too.


3 posted on 07/30/2015 2:31:52 PM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: BenLurkin
http://media.giphy.com/media/TKykThzsAH2hO/giphy.gif


4 posted on 07/30/2015 2:32:05 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: BenLurkin

5 posted on 07/30/2015 2:36:06 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
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To: JoeProBono

Oh boy — nightmares!


6 posted on 07/30/2015 2:36:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The big world is a nasty place. Lots of things want to kill you.


7 posted on 07/30/2015 2:37:00 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Looks like folks down there will need to floss carefully for the next few days.


8 posted on 07/30/2015 2:38:17 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: JoeProBono

oops there goes another rubber tree plant....


9 posted on 07/30/2015 2:38:57 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: BenLurkin

EGAD!

There is absolutely, positively nothing on this earth worse than worms.

WORMS!

Except for Barack Obama.

But besides him worms are the worst thing evar!


10 posted on 07/30/2015 2:40:51 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: BenLurkin

“Winfree” sounds familiar... I think I remember their name on FR once upon a time for something...


11 posted on 07/30/2015 3:00:24 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: BenLurkin

“Well, the buzzards gotta eat.....just like the worms.”

Stolen from, “The Outlaw Josey Wales”. ;-)


12 posted on 07/30/2015 3:02:44 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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To: chris37

I’d say he *is* a worm, but that would be insulting to worms.


13 posted on 07/30/2015 3:08:12 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: chris37
There is absolutely, positively nothing on this earth worse than worms. ...

Except for Barack Obama.

And what exactly is the difference?

14 posted on 07/30/2015 3:11:29 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Jeff Chandler
I have six backflow prevention connections. Each year I must have them certified as functioning by a licensed master plumbing contractor. The best I can get on price is $50 each valve. To install new ones every year, which would be cheaper, I cannot because the county requires permits be pulled and code enforcement perform rough in and final inspections while the plumber has to wait for the inspector to show up. They only give a day, not a time.Ignoring the postcard I get to have the master plumber fill out and sign will run me a fine of over $1,000 for that many connection violations.
15 posted on 07/30/2015 3:11:38 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: BenLurkin

Not just worms, but blood worms.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/blood-worms-appearing-in-water-in-chambers-county-town/34429370

These worms have teeth.


16 posted on 07/30/2015 3:19:45 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: BenLurkin

I saw this on the evening news. Nasty nasty!

I don’t know if I would call this a Surburb of Houston. It is pretty far to the east.


17 posted on 07/30/2015 3:23:49 PM PDT by Ditter ( God Bless Texas!)
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To: Ditter

I don’t know if I would call this a Surburb of Houston. It is pretty far to the east.

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That area is about 30 miles or so east of downtown Houston.


18 posted on 07/30/2015 3:31:46 PM PDT by deport
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To: IronJack

Well, I can use a worm for fishing bait.

In a survival situation I could put them in my eggs for extra protein.


19 posted on 07/30/2015 3:35:35 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: deport

So about half the distance of my Houston area commute.


20 posted on 07/30/2015 3:42:33 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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