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Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: wvu13 ()
Date: April 03, 2009 02:12AM

Its terrible! for the past couple of days the water smells like someone fell asleep at the treatment plant and let way too much chlorine get in. I took a bath tonight to try and help a muscle pain from baseball and I felt like I was sitting in a hot tub, ffx water needs to wake up.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: Shadow ()
Date: April 03, 2009 04:22AM

It's part of the Spring flushing of the mains. It'll go away. Happens every Spring.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: KeepOnTruckin ()
Date: April 03, 2009 08:49AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/30/AR2009033003801.html

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: shuckinchuck ()
Date: April 03, 2009 08:59AM

You are part of the Falls Church Shitty water system which buys its water from the Army Corps of Engineers. Each spring they flush the lines with chlorine for a couple of weeks to cut down on accumulated bacteria in the 100+ year old distribution system. It will pass.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: 124C41 ()
Date: April 03, 2009 08:59AM

To explain the situation, the water authority includes an explanation with their statements (last billing period).

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: HIJACKER ()
Date: April 03, 2009 09:17AM

shuckinchuck Wrote:
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> You are part of the Falls Church Shitty water
> system which buys its water from the Army Corps of
> Engineers. Each spring they flush the lines with
> chlorine for a couple of weeks to cut down on
> accumulated bacteria in the 100+ year old
> distribution system. It will pass.


Your joke failed, because CFC receives its water from the FCWA. Hence, the pending $20M lawsuit against them.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: BO ()
Date: April 06, 2009 12:44PM

I FILLED MY POOL UP WITH IT YESTERDAY...CUTS DOWN ON THE COST OF BUYING CHLORINE. I DO IT EVERY SPRING.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: Lurker. ()
Date: April 06, 2009 12:50PM

I have a good home water filtering system. Water tastes great, no smells and no polutants.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: No Fingers Louie ()
Date: April 06, 2009 07:12PM

Must be nice to have fingers, I have to type with a stick in my mouth.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: N. ()
Date: January 21, 2010 12:12PM

Looks like its that time again, i totally smell bleach when i take a shower now.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: i > u ()
Date: January 21, 2010 01:01PM

Well water. Yes, have some.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: trogdor! ()
Date: January 23, 2010 11:17AM

Ahh...Chlorine. I'm sure there absolutely nothing bad about breathing in aerosolized chlorine in the shower.

You would never be able to get lung cancer or emphysema from anything like that....

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: The_YC ()
Date: December 05, 2010 02:02PM

I'm experiencing the same, and it's early December. I pay FFX Co. Water and live in Reston. Anyone else?

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: Kilton ()
Date: December 05, 2010 02:09PM

Yeppers. It's been worse the last couple weeks.

I use one of these babies for drinking water:

http://www.bigberkeywaterfilters.com/berkey-filter-systems-c-1/big-berkey-p-182

And one of these for the shower:

http://www.amazon.com/Culligan-ISH-100-Inline-Shower-Filter/dp/B000MVYRWE/

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: rrs540 ()
Date: December 05, 2010 05:01PM

Nah, I'm on a well, no shitty city water.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: ScrewTheEPA ()
Date: December 05, 2010 11:51PM

Don't believe everything you hear just because its EPA or FDA approved, or in this case, cause the (Washington Aqueduct) arm of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that processes the city's water, says its okay.

http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/chloramines-in-drinking-waterthe-hidden-dangers-revealed-952133.html

This (excuse my french) sh!t eats away at your plumbing. Not even reverse osmosis can get rid of the toxins.. wth?

We're already drinking mercury and flouride in our tap. Thanks EPA.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: Blank Reg ()
Date: December 06, 2010 11:46AM

I dont know about chlorine, but my tap water always smells like sulfur for the first minute or so after turning a faucet on.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: michelle hager ()
Date: March 28, 2012 12:16PM

go to www.pristinewater-treatment.com, we can fix any water issue you may have. unfortunatly its up to the homeowner to do so.

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: Bruin ()
Date: March 28, 2012 07:56PM

Hey Blank Reg-

I work in water quality for a local utility, and the sulphur smell you are getting may have to do with the dip tube in your water heater? You may be able to retro-fit that thing pretty easy and cheap, and lose the smell. Hope this helps!

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Re: Anyone else water smell like chlorine?
Posted by: michaeljh241 ()
Date: March 09, 2021 06:43PM

To keep the water from smelling like chlorine, it's best to put a shower filter! Chlorine won't seem horrible to you anymore) I have a big house and I put a filtration system in the basement, but it didn't help. The shower filter, on the other hand, handled the problem perfectly!

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