As Manchester, Michigan continues to experience numerous water and sewer issues after decades of questionable maintenance, it may be getting worse in the near future. Long term residents have already seen the problems and costs caused from failure to scale the water and sewer systems during the last expansion. Current rumor’s are Manchester’s council decided to expand several new areas for housing development. As usual they aren’t publishing their efforts to address water and sewer or the update of existing systems to residents to ensure expansions doesn’t cause more problems.
The filters below are the before (top) and after 5 months of drinking water filtering (bottom). They show the organic and particles that are in the drinking water. As a reference these .5 micron filters remove everything bigger than about 50 times the size of dust like cysts, lead, chromium, radium, etc. If I don’t wear gloves to change the filter it affects my health so I’m changing to a cartridge system which causes additional trash.
I get the water quality reports showing passes of some state requirements where testing is most likely taken at the source. What residents get at the delivery end looks like it’s considerably different. With monthly water bills approaching $100 a month shouldn’t the water be clean enough to not need additional filtering? The filters cost an additional $25 a month just to get clean drinking water.
Maybe the council considers this like fracking water in Colorado where residents were told, “it’s ok, animals are drinking it”.
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