Stuyvesant Town residents continue to see the quality of their drinking water worsen on a daily basis. A resident of 449 East 14th Street sent us this photo to show the poor quality of water in his building. He writes:
"The water bottle on the left is store bought and the bottle on the right was filled from the tap. The tap water is noticeably darker and has a very strong chemical odor/taste to it. I've lived here for quite some time and never have I seen the water like this, it's been unusable for weeks."
Other residents have been complaining about the same undrinkable water in their apartments. A resident of 622 East 20th Street has had brown water for weeks and has been getting conflicting information regarding the cause of the mess.
We are at 19 Oval. I've noticed that there is a brown streak that forms in our toilet bowl at the edge of the water within 24 hours. It used to take that stain several weeks to form.
Tishman Speyer Law of Equal Distribution
If you have muddy water outside the buildings, there must also be muddy water inside the buildings. Duh, didn't you learn in high school that water seeks its own level?
And people would want to live there because...?
I wonder if there are any carcinogens in the water. Maybe it should be tested.
Stuyvesant Town: Flush hard, it's a long way to the sink!
Ditto on the brown stain in toilet bowl. I scrub it daily to get rid of it. Is this a safe place to live anymore?! We are starting to be genuinely concerned. Without any public oversight of ST/PCV, we are left with no channels or resources to protect ourselves and our families. What about all the little children that live here?!?!
NYC apparently offers a free Residential Drinking Water [at the tap for lead and perhaps other contaminants] Testing Program thru the NYC Department of Environmental Protection. One can call the 311 "helpline" to request a free test kit. The 2007 NYC water quality report can be found at http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/wsstate07.pdf. There is a description of the reasons for brown water--rusty pipes, construction, etc--on page 16 of the report.
If residents are so concerned (as well they should be!), why aren't they DOING something about it? Have any of you read the book or seen the movie 'A Civil Suit'? It's a true story about a cluster of people in Woburn, MA contracting all kinds of cancers from drinking AND showering with poisoned well water. That crap enters the open pores of the skin in the your shower! The body becomes a giant sponge. How much more are you people going to bend over and take from Tish-Spey; cancer, death, both? Call the EPA, CBS, ABC, FOX, all of them and have them get their asses down there before someone dies or is that what it's going to take?
Who knows what's in the discolored and possibly poisonous water. That's why all tenants need to do whatever they can to hold TS accountable for everything that falls under the jurisdiction of property owners and property managers. I'm calling 311 for my water testing kit! Anyone care to run a test on what lives in the washers and dryers? And who's taking pics of vermin sitings in the carriage rooms & lobbies? I know they're still there because there are new droppings in my mailbox!
Cheers to HardlyHappy! Residents need to test the water coming from their taps. No one in government or the press is going to do anything about the water situation until there is some proof that it contains the kinds of contaminants that make it unsafe and unhealthy to drink and bathe in. Color and taste may be indications of contamination or simply an aesthetic problem. You won't know until you test it.