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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Ewww.
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.
Oh boy — nightmares!
The big world is a nasty place. Lots of things want to kill you.
Looks like folks down there will need to floss carefully for the next few days.
oops there goes another rubber tree plant....
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!
“Winfree” sounds familiar... I think I remember their name on FR once upon a time for something...
“Well, the buzzards gotta eat.....just like the worms.”
Stolen from, “The Outlaw Josey Wales”. ;-)
I’d say he *is* a worm, but that would be insulting to worms.
Except for Barack Obama.
And what exactly is the difference?
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.
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.
I dont 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.
Well, I can use a worm for fishing bait.
In a survival situation I could put them in my eggs for extra protein.
So about half the distance of my Houston area commute.
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