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Ironwood Tries To Address ‘Nasty’ Drinking Water As National Scientists Get Involved
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:04:46
Publish Date: 2019-09-26 06:01:00
Description: Twenty-one-year-old Kai Movrich has enough to worry about. On top of working at Contrast Coffee in downtown Ironwood, she owns and is an instructor at a dance studio in town. She didn’t need her tap water at home to be a problem, too. But she found something gross when she moved into a new house in July. “Through our faucet in our bathroom, when we turned the spouts on as soon as they turned our water on, we actually had sediment coming through our spouts,” Movrich said. “We’re talking rocks the size of nickels.” Her frustration isn’t unique. People on Ironwood’s municipal water system describe their tap water as often oily, brown, and nasty. Pictures on a Facebook group show water the color of coffee coming from faucets in the city. At Contrast Coffee, the water flowing into the bathroom sometimes looks rusty, almost opaque. “It almost is like, ‘Oops, someone didn’t flush the toilet,’ and we flush it, and, ‘Oops, nope, that’s just the way it is,’” said Becky Bogaczyk, the coffee shop
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