Water Advisory

[reefs4life]

I'm sure those of us that live in Westchester have heard that there's a water advisory in effect. I was wondering if we should turn off our RO/DI units during this time to reduce wear on the filters if there's increased turbidity and such. Some thoughts?

 

[Skaters216]

Don't make Rodi

I would not make any RoDi water for a couple of days, if there was a waterman break who knows how much stuff from the ground got into the water mains

 

[Clink51]

will this hit NYC?

 

[reefs4life]

Actually I just went on UnitedWater.com and got my explanation of why there's a boil water advisory, and for those that don't know, those are the municipalities that are affected.

A boil water advisory has been issued by the Westchester County Department of Health for the following municipalities served by the United Water Rate District #1 and will remain in effect on Wednesday, May 27 from 10 a.m. through midnight. Approximately 150,000 people are in the affected areas as follows:

• City of New Rochelle
• Town of Eastchester
• Village of Bronxville
• Village of Tuckahoe
• Town of Pelham
• Village of Pelham
• Village of Pelham Manor

The boil water advisory is being issued as a precautionary measure while New York City Department of Environmental Protection performs scheduled maintenance of its chlorination system resulting in inadequate disinfection of water provided to United Water Rate District #1



At the end of the day, I don't think I should be worrying much about running the RO/DI, if anything it's probably better to use it now because there will be no chlorine to be neutralized by the filter.