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."
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How far is it from the eastern Houston city limits?
And the worms ate into his brain.
Don’t remember where the Eastern city limits are. It’s located
about 20 miles east of Beltway 8 and a couple miles north IH10.
But dinner? Not even if I had to eat dried rat instead.
Chum!
Now that is a heckuva idea >;-D
I keep thinking I am going to drive from one side of Houston to the other and see how many miles it is across. That is if they still put up a city limits sign any more.
Yes they still have them or they did a couple years ago.
An interesting tidbit about IH10 is that when you get on I-10 at it’s beginning in
West Tx you’ll drive almost 878 miles until you cross the Sabine River into LA.
It’s somewhere around 44 miles across Houston on I-10 some of which is basically
the city limit just following the Interstate on the north/south sides to
get commercial property..
I would have though it was more like 80 miles across than 40 . We don’t take I10 east very often but we take 288 south often and I45 north pretty often but I have never checked the mileage.
I was born here in 1940 I have seen a lot of change in Houston.
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