Very very temporary and non-professional. In a sense we could be providing water to the community for 24-hour period with no chlorine. On the other side of that one of the items that was on the deficiency list for a period of time was the turbidity meter. The turbidity meter measures silt and sand and iron and contaminants that are in the water. We no longer measure for turbidity.
Turbidity is when water gets churned up with silt.
And in White River, the silt clogs wells routinely. The danger with turbidity is that it can form a sort of buffer around bacteria, shielding it from the chlorine. Sometimes it happens with no warning. If you want to be put off your lunch, just listen to the water horror stories they tell over at St. Basil's school. Everyone remembers the time a visiting floor hockey team came to play.