Due to the coronavirus, there's a shortage of liquid oxygen at local Tampa hospitals, so Tampa Bay Water is using bleach to treat tap water.
If your tap water tastes and smells strange, you can blame it on the coronavirus pandemic. Tampa Bay's water supplier is using bleach to disinfect water to save liquid oxygen for hospitals facing a shortage.
Tampa Bay hospitals are receiving twice as many COVID-19 patients as they did during the peak of last year's pandemic. As a result, the hospitals are running low on liquid oxygen needed for critically ill patients on respirators.
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Notice Your Tampa Tap Water Tasting Different? You Should.
This spring, the Tampa Water Department temporarily changed the water disinfection process for city customers.
From mid March of this year to after the first week of April, the department switched from using chloramine to disinfect the water to chlorine. Then, after April 6th back again to chloramine.
For the residence of the Tampa region this temporary change is a standard water system maintenance measure to optimize water quality and offers a sustainable alternative to losing millions of gallons of drinking water to system flushing.
One thing is for certain, custom...
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WHOLE HOUSE WATER FILTRATION SYSTEMS: TOP 10 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Last month the City of Tampa and much of Hillsborough County communities was under a boil water notice because a contractor hit a water main break. Water was gushing everywhere and many businesses throughout the area were forced to close down. Even worse, residents throughout the region were unable to drink or cook with the water from their tap. Unfortunately, this is not all that uncommon.
When the professionals at Cass Plumbing install a whole house water filtration systems, they are installed on a home’s main water supply. These are basically used to process all water which enters the ho...
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