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customerserviceguy

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2. Relax, this is Mercer Island

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 28, 2014, 12:50 PM

Sep 2014

Chances are, it's the maid or the nanny who will have to get up early to boil water. Or, they'll just use bottled water until the tests come back clean. It's not going to affect bathing, toilet use, clothes washing, or any outdoor uses of water. And chances are, it is caused by a main break, allowing contaminated ground water to seep into the domestic water supply, not some incompetence of some Seattle utility worker.

Did you forget the sarcasm thingy?

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(Wealthy) Seattle suburb told to boil water for E. coli [View all] unhappycamper Sep 2014 OP

Horrible! This is tragic. How did this happen? yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #1

Relax, this is Mercer Island customerserviceguy Sep 2014 #2

In some ways it was sarcasm yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #3

OK, I thought so customerserviceguy Sep 2014 #4

I didn't know Mercer Island people stooped to drinking tap water in the first place jmowreader Sep 2014 #5