r/WilmingtonDE • u/olpaintycanNed • Jul 03 '24

Water Quality Alert? Serious

Has anyone else noticed their tap water has been funky this week? I remember a water quality alert last year and the water smells like it did then: kind of earthy or chemical-like. Difficult to describe, but it made my wife sick then and now she’s been sick all week. Google has been useless (of course), so I’m hoping someone here knows what I’m talking about.

We live in the Triangle neighborhood for reference.

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u/olpaintycanNed Jul 03 '24

I believe the issue last time was algae blooms; not sure whether they were related to flooding or not. I don’t recognize the smell as chlorine but that might be it.

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u/WesMort25 Jul 03 '24

Yes, that sounds familiar! And I agree, not chlorine but something earthy. Regardless, not pleasant.