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Taste and Odor Issues – Raritan System​

New Jersey American Water is aware of the changes in the taste and odor of our water reported by customers in our Raritan System and surrounding areas. Please refer to the list below. We are investigating and continuing to sample throughout our system. We will also be flushing hydrants overnight in an effort to help clear the system, which may result in low pressure and/or discoloration for customers.
If your water is discolored, run the cold water taps only, at the lowest level of the house for about 3 to 5 minutes until the water runs clear.
We thank you for your patience and understanding while we work to resolve this issue. We will provide updates as they become available on Thursday.


⚫ Belle Mead

⚫Berkeley Heights

⚫Bound Brook

⚫Bridgewater

⚫Branchburg

⚫Chester

⚫Clark

⚫ Cranbury

⚫ Cranford

⚫ Dunellen

⚫ Edison

⚫ Fanwood

⚫ Far Hills

⚫ Flagtown

⚫ Flemington

⚫ Franklin Township

⚫ Garwood

⚫ Gladstone

⚫ Green Brook

⚫ Hightstown

⚫ Hillsborough

⚫ Hillside

⚫ Hopewell Borough

⚫ Hopewell Township

⚫ Jamesburg

⚫ Kenilworth

⚫ Kingston

⚫ Lawrence

⚫ Linden

⚫ Manville

⚫ Martinsville

⚫ Middlesex

⚫ Millstone

⚫ Monroe Township

⚫ Montgomery

⚫ Mountainside

⚫ Neshanic Station

⚫ New Providence

⚫ North Plainfield

⚫ Peapack

⚫ Piscataway

⚫ Plainfield

⚫ Plainsboro

⚫ Pottersville

⚫ Princeton

⚫ Princeton Junction

⚫ Raritan Borough

⚫ Raritan Township

⚫ Readington

⚫ Roselle

⚫ Roselle Park

⚫ Scotch Plains

⚫ Somerset

⚫ Somerville

⚫ South Brunswick

⚫ South Plainfield

⚫ South Bound Brook

⚫ Tewksbury,

⚫ Three Bridges

⚫ Union

⚫ Vauxhall

⚫ Warren

⚫ Watchung

⚫ West Windsor

⚫ Westfield

⚫ Whitehouse

⚫ Whitehouse Station.
 
I wish my biggest water concerns were Taste and Odor. Here in Trenton Water Works country, we get notification letters about failed test results for disinfection byproducts 3+ years after the fact. Absolutely criminal.
 
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ru66 said:
Who drinks tap water nowadays?
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Probably the people who know that bottled water is a rip off and contains nano plastics which can imbed in cardiac and penile tissues to name a couple. And as a recent study has indicated, people with nano plastics in their system were twice as likely to have a heart attack, stroke or die from any cause over the next three years than people who had none.
 
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I especially like the bottled water which comes from, I believe, the Atlanta water system. What brilliant marketing!

The only time I drink bottled water is during a tailgate and in the game. Other than that it's tap water.
 
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RU848789 said:
Who doesn't? Bottled water is the biggest most successful marketing scam ever (way more expensive and wasteful) and much of it comes from the same sources as tap.
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I wonder who was the guy that initially had the idea and said to people “hey we are just gonna bottle this water up, mark up the price and sell it. “ He must have gotten laughed out of the room. Probably the same guy that said he would sell you shopping bags to take to the store .
Waiting for the next guy to sell me air to breathe
 
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Who doesn't? Bottled water is the biggest most successful marketing scam ever (way more expensive and wasteful) and much of it comes from the same sources as tap.
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Bottled water is inspected less and has less rigorous standards than NJ tap water. And the people responsible for water supply in NJ live here and are accountable locally. The bottled water people could care less what we think locally.
 
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Plum Street said:
I wonder who was the guy that initially had the idea and said to people “hey we are just gonna bottle this water up, mark up the price and sell it. “ He must have gotten laughed out of the room. Probably the same guy that said he would sell you shopping bags to take to the store .
Waiting for the next guy to sell me air to breathe
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Whoever says advertising doesn't work is clueless. It does, as there would be a much smaller bottled water market without it, as it's almost a completely unnecessary product in most first world countries.

https://www.historyoasis.com/post/history-bottled-water

And there are also charlatans selling "nitrogen" for tires, when N2 makes up 79% of air, so the differences between using air and N2 are negligible, but people can be convinced of almost anything these days. Look no further than the antivaxxers...among other things.
 
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RU848789 said:
Who doesn't? Bottled water is the biggest most successful marketing scam ever (way more expensive and wasteful) and much of it comes from the same sources as tap.
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Haha. Thought they were going to best themselves with the "raw" or "live" water trend from a couple years ago. The lack of any processing was the selling point and it was two or three times the price.

Waiting for it evolve into murky pond or swamp water ..."see, feel and chew the youthening health benefits!"

Haven't seen much about it lately, tho.
 
You've got to be crazy to drink tap water here on long island
 
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ru66 said:
God forbid, cancer
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Show your work. Carcinogens in municipal drinking water are exceedingly low and usually similar to levels in bottled water, since much of bottled water comes from the same source - there aren't gnomes out there bottling "magically clean" water from secret springs. Also, the levels of carcinogens allowed in drinking water are typically several orders of magnitude lower than the levels that might actually cause cancer (which is good - these provide a cushion of protection).
 
miketd1 said:
Pardon my ignorance, but would using a Brita filter make much of a difference..?
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They have several different types and they can do some good.
The basic white filters take out chlorine pretty well but only do a few other things
The blue "Elite" filters last longer and will do chlorine as well as lead, plastics, some pesticides.
Fluorides, bacteria, viruses and such aren't handled effectively for most part.
Basic Life Straws and Sawyer camping filters will do bacteria but not viruses (more expensive models will - $100s vs $15)

I got a filter pitcher to make coffee (I do cold brewing - not "cold brew" but brewing with no heat) and the water did taste better.
They aren't very expensive ($15 on sale with another 10-15 for pack of filters)
Brita uses charcoal so it filters chlorine pretty fast.
The more effective filters for sketchy water with bacteria and such use fibrous filters and will be slower.
Some say to take filter claims with a grain of salt so drinking street puddle water in Haiti might be ill advised but drinking from a creek on a hike usually isn't too bad with right filter

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Do Brita pitchers actually make for safer tap water? An unbiased overview of what Brita filters really do for your drinking water.
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The ZeroWater filter does better than Brita according to some people - I'll be trying it when I run out of Brita filters


 
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Show your work. Carcinogens in municipal drinking water are exceedingly low and usually similar to levels in bottled water, since much of bottled water comes from the same source - there aren't gnomes out there bottling "magically clean" water from secret springs. Also, the levels of carcinogens allowed in drinking water are typically several orders of magnitude lower than the levels that might actually cause cancer (which is good - these provide a cushion of protection).
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This I agree with

But what about your thoughts on well water,specifically in very developed areas like rahway/colonia/clark? I was shocked to hear of houses there having wells. Warren county I get it .
 
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Plum Street said:
This I agree with

But what about your thoughts on well water,specifically in very developed areas like rahway/colonia/clark? I was shocked to hear of houses there having wells. Warren county I get it .
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If I had a well, I'd want to have it tested at least once a year to make sure the water quality is acceptable. I have no idea if people do that, as I know it ain't cheap. Generally speaking, wells should be deep enough to not be contaminated, but with the history of dumping chemical pollutants in this state, I'd want to make sure my well water was ok.
 
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If I had a well, I'd want to have it tested at least once a year to make sure the water quality is acceptable. I have no idea if people do that, as I know it ain't cheap. Generally speaking, wells should be deep enough to not be contaminated, but with the history of dumping chemical pollutants in this state, I'd want to make sure my well water was ok.
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Through the local person in Hopewell Twp, I pay about 500-600 a year for water test, inspection of my system, etc. It definitely isn't cheap, but since we have to have a triple osmosis filter along with an arsenic filter on it, it needs to be done.
 
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Show your work. Carcinogens in municipal drinking water are exceedingly low and usually similar to levels in bottled water, since much of bottled water comes from the same source - there aren't gnomes out there bottling "magically clean" water from secret springs. Also, the levels of carcinogens allowed in drinking water are typically several orders of magnitude lower than the levels that might actually cause cancer (which is good - these provide a cushion of protection).
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Except in Toms River.
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But yes tap water is safe and most bottled water companies bottle tap water unless they specifically list a spring water source. Tap water out this way is good.
 
I forgot how feisty people are over their water, lol.

I don't even drink much bottled water, but...

Even bottled tap water tastes much better than most municipal water straight from the sink. Same reason people use a Brita or drink from their fridge tap. Bottled water's just easier, particularly when you're not home.

Plenty of bottled water is not purified tap at all but spring, artesian, glacier ...
 
zappaa said:
Me.
I drank out of garden hoses all over town as a kid, why stop now?
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Plus, every day we were in the woods and swampy areas by the creek behind my house. Came home with leeches and ticks. No one thought anything was wrong with any of it.
 
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