[RELATED] Shaver Springs community report orange tap water, Fresno County says water is safe<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t take showers every day. We buy bottled water. We use a bucket to fill up our shower water to get it warm. We use that to flush our toilets. We use a bucket to wash our dishes. We only change it maybe once, twice a day. If we have to, we use bottled water for everything else other than laundry and dishes and our showers, which we save,\u201d one neighbor said.<\/p>\n
County leaders said the water has tested positive for iron and manganese, which they cited as the reason for the discoloration. <\/p>\n
Residents said more testing is needed and raised concerns about potential health impacts. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf it was just discolored, I wouldn\u2019t have an issue with it. I could live with discolored. I can\u2019t live knowing that if I drink it, my health deteriorates,\u201d another neighbor said.<\/p>\n
The meeting also included discussions about testing sites, bill rates and how future steps could be funded. Magsig said he is looking for additional resources to address the community\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a supervisor I\u2019m committed to working with the state to try to find additional grant sources whether it be new wells or the possibility of new filtration systems or even an opportunity to replace infrastructure that they have in their community,\u201d Magsig said.<\/p>\n
Some residents left the meeting upset with how they felt they were treated.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we were very disrespected um I think it was rude I think they made it all about them and they should have made it about the community,\u201d Jennifer Taber, a concerned neighbor, said. <\/p>\n
After the meeting, Magsig was again asked about drinking the water.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m absolutely willing to drink the water but the water that I drink is going to be from the sites that the county tests I don\u2019t know what people bring to meetings and of course right now we live in a time where county employees are attacked,\u201d he said. \u201cAbsolutely willing to drink from the water but it\u2019s going to be sources where the county is testing where the water is being delivered directly to their homes I have no problem with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neighbors said they worry about what happens if conditions do not improve.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll we want is clean water, that\u2019s all we\u2019re fighting for, is clean water. We\u2019re scared,\u201d Taber said. “At minimum I hope that they test the tanks they I did talk to the state and they said that they tested for the manganese and they tested for the iron but what we need to be testing for is for the bacteria we need to find out if there\u2019s vocs or bacteria in our water and I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re not testing for that.”<\/p>\n
Two main issues raised by residents were higher rates and fears of potentially contaminated water, while Magsig said he remains dedicated to helping the community find a solution.<\/p>\n
Fresno County officials have previously said iron and manganese are considered secondary contaminants and are not considered contaminants that make the water unsafe to drink. <\/p>\n
Magsig said he still wants to address the discoloration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frustration over discolored tap water boiled over in Shaver Springs as neighbors pressed Fresno County officials during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-444863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}