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IF YOUR POTABLE WATER TASTES SALTY, CALL WAPA

The Water and Power Authority is looking for residential and business water customers who may have salt water feeding into their potable water delivery systems.
In the process of relocating water lines in the Lindbergh Bay area as part of a drainage project, WAPA discovered that a salt water system that had been abandoned in December by Public Works still had pressure and water flow.
Cross connections between the potable water and salt water systems could contaminate and waste potable water, according to WAPA public information officer Patricia Blake Simmonds.
WAPA customers who believe they may be receiving potable water flow from their salt water connections are asked to call WAPA's Potable Water Division at 775-5873.

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