"Mom, he's puking"

So began the text from my daughter yesterday.

To make a long story short, the foot of snow that fell on Sunday/Monday made daughter's long steep driveway virtually impassable, except for her husband making it down the driveway to head to work.  He would deal with snow clearing that evening when he returned.

Daughter had run out of 2% milk for our 19-month old grandson.
She--later--admitted to giving him tap water to drink.
All day.

He vomited. 
And not only once.

Frantic, she contacted me.

After discussing what he had--and hadn't--eaten, she and I quickly realized that they hadn't been out of the house since Christmas Eve, four days earlier.  So he hadn't "caught a bug" from the busy shopping season, nor were any family members ill.

Then the little bell rang in my head...
Duteau tap water, with its unacceptable levels of Trihalomethane and Haloacetic Acids, in addition to the stinky chlorine smell that a glass of tap water exudes. 

"....Duteau Creek Water Treatment Plant levels exceeding by 400% the Standard (compared to Mission Hill Water Treatment Plant's lower levels)" from page 20 of 49 here.

"...the TTHM results continue to be in excess

of the GCDWQ MAC, ranging between 99 and 236 μg/L.

The species of TTHM measured in the Duteau Creek source water is almost exclusively composed of chloroform."

The Maximum Acceptable is 100!

Table 1 (on page 4 of 6) here states that "main risk on Duteau (is) at end of system (note, reviewing other treatment and operational options to reduce)."
   

The 2 charts on Duteau Creek plant's Disinfection By-Products are on pages 23 and 24 here.

Oh my gawd...

I almost yelled into the phone...no more tap water.
Ever. 
Their home is "near the end of the system", where it's recognized by GVW and consultants that the main risk from the highest levels of disinfection by-products occurs.

Needless to say the little guy got a fresh supply of 2% milk.
Pronto.

"The vomiting is over," daughter reported, "I'll never give him tap water again."
Good.


"I only drink tap water in summer," says Kia looking at her water bowl, "so I'm glad it snowed...snow tastes great."


Dangerous Duteau, whose disinfection by-products are up to 400 per cent higher than those found in water from Mission Hill Water Treatment Plant.

Heads should roll, but to date, heads have only been nodding.
Disgraceful!