Ethan Hoagland
Sweet Home’s award-winning water is different. To combat a surge of turbidity from the drawdown of Green Peter reservoir into the city’s municipal water source, Foster Lake, Public Works crews had to change the chemistry. A little bit more chlorine was added to help clean the water. Tints from plant tannins persisted through people’s pipes anyway. The change sparked concern among a population unused to noticing the chlorine in their water, let alone…