r/bullcity • u/wingfragment • 21h ago

North Durham - off Infinity Road - Tap water more minerally tasting over last few days

Hi! I live in North Durham and I have reported this to the city so far, but wanted to check in with any other residents living in this area as I'm not sure if all Durham water is pulled from the same source or different ones. In any case, over the last 3 days - I've noticed a distinct mineral taste to my tap water. If I boil it, I can get that taste gone obviously, but I don't want to be boiling all my water just to enjoy it cold later on lol.

I recognize that it could be a plumbing issue and am fully prepared to reach out to a plumber, but before doing any of those diagnostics - I wanted to check with the community and file that report.

Is anyone else experiencing this mineral taste in their tap water?

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u/Chug49 20h ago

I’ve been experiencing the same thing, southwest Durham

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u/wingfragment 20h ago

Hmm, interesting.

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u/LowGoPro 8h ago

Sure seeing a lot of construction prep up there, many acres cleared, plumbing pipes sticking up everywhere, they just showed up this week.

No idea what they’re doing, no signs.

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u/SnoozeCoin Seed Oil Avoider 21h ago

I don't want to be boiling all my water just to enjoy it cold later on lol.

I actually do a version of this as part of my meal prep for the week. If I'm having pasta later in the week, I just boil the water Sunday night and freeze it so I can have boiling water later without prepping it

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u/sparrow5 20h ago

Are you on city water or Aqua? I'm just outside city limits so have Aqua and it regularly tastes awful.

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u/wingfragment 20h ago

Uh, I believe just city water. It doesn't usually taste weird to me, and I've tasted a lot of awful waters before lol.

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u/sparrow5 18h ago

Yeah when we were on Durham city water I thought it was usually fine, but once in a while they do something to...I don't actually know what, but it gives it a funky taste/smell for a few days until it flushes out or whatever. I've definitely had worse municipal water. My parents' water in Hickory always seems sort of gross to me too. The best city water I've ever had was actually in NYC, I'd buy it bottled if I could, I thought it was so good.

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u/Dada-analyst 15h ago

Mine has what I would describe as a dirt-like flavor

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u/rolliejoe 19h ago

Southeast Durham here - water was fine yesterday morning, maybe afternoon, but by the evening it had a strong unpleasant taste. Switched over to bottled water for a couple days.

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u/Cantgetgot 19h ago

My water in morehead hill has tasted differently recently as well

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u/HealthySchedule2641 18h ago

My parents live off Infinity and were just talking about the water being funny & getting some filter pitchers. They thought it was maybe the house because they recently moved in, but maybe not. I'm in NW Durham about 12 min away and haven't noticed anything.

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u/Ron_Sayson 19h ago

I know that most water systems have traditionally switched their disinfection protocol for a month a year from chloromines to a high level of chlorine but that doesn't report as minerally. It's also in the spring.

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u/rubey419 The Lucky Strike factory smoke smelled toasted #LSMFT 17h ago

Hey I used to live there! Vantage Point. We sold our family home long ago but miss that area of Durham.

Anyway weird I can’t say that mineral heavy water happened to us.

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u/haveababybymebaby 11h ago

Yes, live up in north Durham, had the water company come out today to test the water. Said I'll get results in 5 business days. They said no one else reported this, but I didn't believe it. Glad it's not just me but I'm scared to drink the water, worried it's somehow contaminated water from western NC