Since June, Gresham residents have been adapting to a new reality: hard, smelly, metallic-tasting tap water. Some online commenters liken it to drinking pool water.
But Portlanders—who are subject to exploding water bills thanks to cost overruns at the city’s Bull Run Filtration Project—might also have reason to feel sick.
Gresham recently transitioned away from the Portland-controlled Bull Run Watershed to its own groundwater system. And in Portland, the loss of 110,000 Greshamites has meant less revenue to help shoulder burgeoning utility costs…