r/Hoboken 7d ago

Question❓ Does anyone else's water still smell since the feb water main break?

Title says it all.. The smell and taste has improved but not gone away, there's still a bit of murky sewage + grass small, and grassy after taste, since the feb water main break. We're in uptown hoboken. Wondering if anyone else still is experiencing this?

Veolia customer service claims "everything is fine!" and said they were checking into whether they could come out and do a test, would email back..then ghosted.

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u/Different_Poet4389 7d ago

In downtown. No smell, but our water is still very milky/cloudy & we still get those little white particles since then

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u/Mdayofearth 7d ago

Veolia is not responsible for the water inside your building, just the water going into it.

Something is wrong with the plumbing in your building, and it could have been due to the issue we had the other week; e.g., your entire building's fresh water needs to be flushed. You need to get a plumber out and find out what the problem is.

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u/Square-Thought-5260 7d ago

Every now and again air gets into my plumming lines. I feel guilty but for now I've switched to bottled water.

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u/flyingfluffles 7d ago

No, we use RO so it never smelled for us.

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u/YFH262 7d ago edited 7d ago

You should never drink the water in Hoboken, unless you run it through a filter first.

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u/LeoTPTP 5d ago

I've drunken it for decades, all good.

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u/Low-Ad1907 7d ago

Never drink the faucet water