THE tap water at Bere Alston appears to be either tainted with mud or rather like diluted milk for much of the time. I appreciate the Bere peninsula is a leaky place, but when my daughter changed the water in her fish tank with what appeared to be clean water from the tap and added the usual tablets I became a little preturbed as the fish started to die.
She took a sample to a pet shop in Tavistock and was given a chemical to neutralise the water, which begs the question 'what is it doing to our insides if it turns fish upside down?'
Is there an independent, public-spirited chemist out there who could advise Times readers in Bere Alston as to the suitablility of the tap water for drinking? We generally keep some bottled water in the house, but should we be drinking it all the time? Did we ought to consider reinstating our well or sinking a new borehole?
The response from South West Water seems to be that we should simply run our water until it clears, but chemicals seem to settle and reappear. What is it exactly they are putting in the water that does this?
Should we be paying for water that at the very least looks obnoxious?
Vic Gardner
Bere Alston