28 February 2014 (10:35 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/09 Esfand 1392/29 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

The Washington based manager of the Syringa Mobile Home Park in Moscow, Idaho, is being sued by 150 residents and the state of Idaho, after nearly three months with no clean water.

Residents say their water supply is so bad that it’s still not safe to drink even after boiling it.  The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) backs that claim up, and says the management has consistently failed to comply with state water testing and reporting requirements.

Back in December 2013, residents were told to boil the water due to a drop in pressure.  It was blamed on the failure of water pumps.  However, by the end of December the problem got worse, and the DEQ told residents that the water was now so contaminated that even boiling it wouldn’t help!

By then the DEQ realized that boiling the water was actually raising the toxic led (sic) content.  On top of that the chlorination system had malfunctioned and was either adding too much chlorine or not enough. It was noted that the type of water pumping and chlorination system in use at the mobile home park could take six months to repair.