Calallen resident Suzanne Gallagher has switched to bottled water for drinking, cooking, and feeding her pets after learning about an arsenic violation affecting her water supply.
“When I want to drink water, I’m just using this water from my pitcher,” Gallagher said, holding up a water jug.
RAWS customers concerned over NCWCID #3 arsenic levels in interconnected supply
Gallagher is a customer of River Acres Water Supply, known as RAWS, which gets its water from Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District 3 through an interconnect transmission line. When District 3 received an arsenic violation, RAWS also had to notify its customers.
“I’ve been drinking the tap water for a long time, and I thought maybe it wasn’t tasting quite as good, but when I switched to the bottled water, it was a big difference, so it does have a taste,” Gallagher said…