Customer said her water “tasted funny” in San Francisco San Francisco water officials said they are testing drinking water in the city’s Sunset District after a report from a customer who said her water “tasted funny.” According to the San Francisco Chronicle, officials with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission said the tests are “out of an abundance of caution” and they have no evidence of water quality issues.
Scardina posted a notice to alert her community to water contamination on social networking site Nextdoor.
City water officials confirmed to her they discovered pesticides in her water to be in excess of water safety guidelines.
“When I asked them about my area, they said that ‘yours tested positive as well but in lower concentrations (than other parts of the Sunset),’” Scardina said to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Tyler Gamble, spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, denied the city’s confirmation to Scardina of unsafe drinking water.
“From all the testing that we do, we have no evidence that the water isn’t safe,” he said.
Gamble said it is possible there are isolated issues of contamination due to private piping in individual homes.
Last year, the agency did 101,900 drinking water tests on its delivery systems according to city records.
More than 80% of the city’s water comes from reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada, smaller portions coming from local reservoirs and groundwater supplies.
Water to the Sunset District is a blend of surface water and groundwater, though some is purely surface water, according to city records.