Water advisory

[hp10BII]

Dang! I usually change my water before the weekend so it gives me the weekend free. But since we have a water advisory in the southcoast of BC, I'm not doing any changes for now.

I aged water overnight in a 32 gallon trash can for a tank I used to have. A couple of years ago after a hard rainfall, the water left a brown gooey film. Not nice to look at and it looked worse in the tank. Took a week to clear and several wipe downs of the tank. It was a bare bottomed tank and you can see the brown sediment drifting with the current.

So no water changes for me, even though the sediment didn't seem to bother the fish. I'd be more concerned about any contaminants that we can't see.

What's everybody else doing?

[CACAdmin]

I did water changes all round 2 days ago.:Worried: Didn't hear about the water advisory until this morning. You'd think that would be something they would put on the front page of the paper! :mad:

However, that said, the water didn't look "brown", no visable sediment and water in tanks remained clear.:Confused: And, most importantly, all my tanks' inhabitants seem ok. :SwimmingFish:Mind you, maybe it's luck, timing, or location. I'm in New West.

With the continued deluge of rain, I wonder, at what point will they lift the 'boil water' advisory.

[CACAdmin]

Update as of 11:15 a.m. today. Boil water avisory has just been lifted for Coquitlam, Poco & Port Moody.:)

[Melody]

It was probably upgraded to serious after the storm. My Son told me the same thing yesterday - they had warned him at school. I promptly forgot and was sipping a coffee before you mentioned it.

I have to cut back on feeding - I have small tanks going that will not tolerate the lack of waterchanges for long, but I'll beef up the filtration. Thank the good Lord for cheap box filters.

I would suggest that we double up on the dechlorinator until this weather is over, because you can bet the chlorine has been maxed in the water supplies. The smell sure is strong from my taps.

They just had an update on News 1130 - looks like they've lifted it in some areas but I'll keep my ears open. Tim Hortons isn't serving coffee..... now THAT'S an emergency!:coffee2:

PS: Thanks for reminding me Mr. HP!

[Melody]

According to News 1130, its been lifted for all areas East of Burnaby, but please don't take my or their word for that when it comes to drinking it. Make sure its being reported everywhere or call your municipality.

Bottled water sales are up!

[Melody]

I think that to be on the safe side, we should all drink beer this weekend. :cheers:

[thegrandpoohbah]

I think that to be on the safe side, we should all drink beer this weekend. :cheers:
Are you buying? :D

[Melody]

Um... no.

:laugh:

Contact your local municipality and put in a request.

[hp10BII]

Yep, I'm cutting back on my feeding until they are back on their regularly scheduled water changes. I think Burnaby gets it's water from the Seymour River resevoir which is higher up on the scale of pollutants than other watersheds...lucky you guys! So I'll hang tight for now.

[Melody]

The teacher told the kids today that the problem (or part of it?) is that there was a mudslide. The radio advised us to not even brush our teeth with it.

I can't see the harm in erring on the side of caution. If for some reason an emergency water change had to be performed then fine, but otherwise, might as well be careful, especially if you have extra sensitive creatures. If nothing else, it could throw the pH out of whack.

[fishenthusiast]

I work in the restaurant industry, so you can imagine the phone calls we were fielding today at our head office.

This is what the health board told us. The advisory is just that an advisory. It is completely voluntary and if you want to drink water or products made from water you can. For the restaurants, it is fine to make coffee and tea, however pop is another story. If you live in Burnaby or Vancouver you may notice that your water is muddy (at least it is at our Vancouver locations and I work in Burnaby and you don't want to know what the toilet water looked like:eek:! Because of this all of our pop machines were shut down and will remain so until the advisory is lifted. Coke is concerned that the sediment may damage the machines in some way. So even though we own them and turning them back on is a pain in the you know what, Coke technicians came to all of our locations and shut them down.

The health board also advised us that the people that are likely to get sick from the water conditions are babies, elderly people and people with compromised immune systems.

As it relates to fish, I am not going to be doing water changes this weekend, and I will definately overdose on dechlorinator until I am told that the GVRD has stopped overdosing our water with chlorine.

[Melody]

Well nobody is more aware of the potential danger than the food industry, so thanks for sharing that perspective. Starbucks wasn't serving coffee either - man some people had a bad start to their day....lol.

Dechlorinator is designed to treat up to a certain amount, based on an average, so I will definitly be upping the dose, just in case.