Notice anything about the water?

We had a problem with the water plant over the past weekend, and in a sense before that. Our pump that pumps water from the water plant to the water tower died a month or so ago. So we sent that in for repair. We were using our backup, and it died on Friday the 31st. The funny thing was, the repaired pump was scheduled to be replaced on Monday, Jan 3.

Anyway, our water tower was full, and had about 2 days of water in it. So we just let it run down the rest of Friday, and into Saturday, New Years Day.

But here's the good part. A past city council made the wise decision to have a hook up into Central Iowa Rural Water out of Newton for emergency use. (water plant failures, extra water needed for fires, etc). So water superintendent Nathan went out on New Year's Day, turned the valve on, and since then, we have been getting water from Central Iowa Rural Water.

So, have you noticed?

The pressure seems the same to me. I think the water tastes a little different. Not sure I would have noticed without knowing this, but I could tell. Nothing bad, just different.

They ran into some problems yesterday installing the repaired/original pump. They had to get the water drained out of the holding tank at the water plant. Hopefully they will get it going today.

This will be no different on your bill. Central Iowa Rural Water will just send the city a bulk bill, and we will bill you for your usage, just like normal. It does have some extra cost to us, because using their water will be more expensive, than what it costs us to treat ours, and the electric for our pumps and so on. Plus we have another pump repair bill. It will run in the thousands of dollars, the things aren't cheap.

My son asked me what water tower we were now using. Guess I'm not exactly sure, but I assume it is the one in McCallsburg.

So anyway, just thought I'd pass that along. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone noticed the change in the water source. (and in a sense we also alter our source, even when things are going fine. We alternate which well we use for our water supply. Not sure how often they toggle, maybe every other day)