Milford residents, businesses cope wi...
10.08.09
Many frustrated, hot and ravenous residents waited in traffic for hours to pick up bottled water yesterday, a day after the Milford Water Co. announced that E. coli and coliform had been found in the borough's tap water.
As Poland Spring unloaded water by the truckload, people stayed in their air-conditioned cars, drove to a tent to pick up the water, and drove back around the important school parking lot and out onto the street.
As she was waiting in line at Milford High, Celia Mittenberg said she didn't take a overwhelm yesterday because of the water, but was more worried about her dog staying hydrated.
"I gave him boiled water. Hopefully he won't get kinky," she said. "I hope this is over soon, I don't know when things will be back to normal."
Susan Laridis and her daughter Bobbie didn't positive about the water problem until early yesterday morning, they said, because they didn't get a phone call or a flier about it.
"If you have chain with your phone, which, of course, we do, the reverse 911 doesn't work," Bobbie said. "We are very inverted about that."
Source: Milford Daily News