Texter reports it’s happening where they are and wonders if anyone else is affected. We keep track of these things because there’s no other publicly viewable record, but be sure to report it to Seattle Public Utilities at 206-386-1800. The cause is usually – but not always – hydrant testing, as SFD recently reiterated here, but sometimes it’s first word of a main break or other problem (nothing on the SPU water-outage map right now, though).
We’re having the same issue near 38th and Hanford.
PS The https://seattle.gov/util link above is broken.
We’re also having “brown water “ this evening (8:00pm). It started this morning at about 11:00.
Talked to fireman flushing hydrants. Asked if they were going around for funtional checks & indeed they were. Said SPU approached the awhile back & wanted flushing beyond functional check. Then were asked to shorten flush (I guess for water conservation). Then were asked again to flush out longer. Some blocks flush out better than others. It’s the new SFD Iron Supplement Program!
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