Monday, January 23, 2012
Test results taken at individual schools in Milford revealed that a contaminant in Milford Water Company water has fallen to an acceptable level.
Milford schools will stick with Milford Water Company water, after school test results were found to reflect town samples in containing acceptable levels of a contaminant. Town and company officials agreed to remove bottled water from most schools earlier this month, after a round of quarterly test results at five locations in town revealed the contaminant — Total Trihalomethanes — had fallen to levels considered safe by the state Department of Environmental Protection. The contaminant, called TTHMs, is produced when drinking water that is pulled from surface waters is disinfected. Company officials say the problem will be resolved when a new water treatment plant is introduced in 2013, but that interim steps — including a new carbon …
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Memorial Elementary School
12 Walnut St, Milford, MA
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Woodland Elementary School
10 N Vine St, Milford, MA
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Middle School East
45 Main St, Milford, MA
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Stacy Middle School
66 School St, Milford, MA
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Milford High School
31 W Fountain St, Milford, MA
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Brookside Elementary School
110 Congress St, Milford, MA
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
The Milford Water Company will begin flushing of hydrants on Halloween, to start moving the carbon-treated water through the system, and lower contaminant levels.
A carbon filter, newly installed at the Milford Water Company property, is ready to be put to use. The private utility company announced Friday it would begin townwide hydrant flushing on Oct. 31, to start moving the carbon-treated water through the distribution system. If successful, the new process should lower levels of a contaminant, Total Trihalomethanes, that has existed in high levels for a year in the public water. The carbon filter — called a carbon sandwich — was installed in October on the Water Company's Dilla Street property. It is designed to remove natural materials and sediment from the water that is being collected from surface waters, such as ponds, before the treatment process begins. The hydrant flushing is expected to …
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Milford Water Company
66 Dilla St, Milford, MA
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Friday, September 30, 2011
About 100 Milford residents attended a grassroots-organized information session on Milford water Thursday, which featured public officials, as well as a water expert, who discussed the state of drinking water in town.
The notice from the Milford Water Company, which, among other things, advised customers to open their windows to ventilate their bathrooms when using the shower to avoid airborne exposure to a water contaminant, was the tipping point for Lisa Vasile. Vasile, a nurse-practitioner, was among the residents who organized a citizens' meeting on water concerns Thursday. The idea, she said, was sparked when she and her friends realized many other town residents were throwing away these notices, or not getting them at all. The notices only go to the Water Company customers. If tenants don't pay the water bill, they won't get the notices. The information meeting on water issues organized by Vasile and Colleen Annantuonio, among others, drew about …
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Milford Youth Center
24 Pearl St, Milford, MA
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Fed up with the quality of the water, some Milford families are spending several thousand dollars to place whole-house filtering systems in their homes.
Last winter, Colleen Annantuonio and her husband started buying bottled water for their family, instead of the water coming out of the faucets at their Milford home. Colleen was pregnant, they had two girls under age 5, and they didn't want to take a chance with the contaminant that the Milford Water Company had told them, through a notice, was present in elevated levels in their water. A few months of that routine became exhausting. So the family invested in an $800 filter system that protected their kitchen's water, including the line going to the refrigerator. Last week, after getting their water tested and learning the contaminant level remained well above the permissable amount, they did the whole house, installing a filter system …
David Nolta
9:20 am on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
I have been to the Water Company site and looked, but I don't see any comparative data. Does anybody know what the statistics are for surrounding towns, or comparably-sized towns, or the country in general? I'm curious to have an idea as to where we fit into a larger picture. more ›