So yesterday when I was out and about town I saw that the front page story was that 20 residents or so had myseriously come down with Salmonella. I thought that was odd and read on hoping to find out where they had contracted said bacteria. The article didn’t say so I assumed it was from some dingy restaurant and hoped I would avoid falling ill and put it out of my mind.
So then this afternoon I receive several e-mails instructing residents to not drink the tap water. Apparently the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has placed a bottled water only restriction on the city water until further notice because that is what is making people sick! Residents aren’t even supposed to brush their teeth or wash dishes in the city water. Boiling the water is also not ok. They aren’t saying how the water became contaminated or how long the restriction will continue.
I’m not sure how common this is but I have never had anything like this happen to me before. Has this happened to anyone else?
you are right… that is gross – stay safe!!!
That’s horrible! Are you allowed to bathe in the water? Wash hands? Man of all things, a contaminated water supply just sucks. Stay safe indeed.
Ick!
Ugh. Hasn’t happened to me, but I can only imagine how much that sucks. Hang in there!!
So weird. We got a water warning today in Scotland County, too. Not sure why, but they issued a “boil your water” warning.
Does anyone know how this happened? What went wrong? Don’t they treat the water? To answer the question above, if there is any chance of ingesting the water while using, e.g., showering, watering vegetables, don’t use it!
Ugh! That’s awful! I don’t know much about salmonella, but my mom recently got e. coli from somewhere. I’ve also been sick since getting home from Europe on Monday. I’m beginning to wonder if I ate something that was contaminated.