Contact Us Few clouds 44°/25° Rapidan Service Authority Home News & Notices Administration Customer Service Self Service Engineering Search Cloudy Water Why is my drinking water cloudy? Once in a while, you get a glass of water that looks "cloudy;" maybe "milky" is a better term. After a few seconds, it miraculously clears up! The cloudiness is likely due to tiny air bubbles in the water. Like any bubble, the air rises to the top of the water and goes into the air above, clearing up the water. Cloudy water is completely harmless. This phenomenon is more common when it is cold outside, because cold water is able to hold more air. In the winter, water from the distribution main - which is very cold - warms up during its travel to your tap. Some of the air that was once dissolved is no longer soluble, and comes out of solution in the form of air bubbles. Water pressure is another factor. In order for water to get to your tap, it is pressurized in the distribution system. Water under pressure holds more air than water that is not pressurized. Once the water comes out of your tap, the water is no longer under pressure, and the air comes out of solution as bubbles (similar to a carbonated soft drink). The best thing to do with cloudy water is let it sit in an open container until the bubbles naturally disappear. (Credit: U.S. Geological Survey) NAVIGATION FOR SECTION NEWS & NOTICES Calendar of Events Rt 15 Recent News Water Conservation Tips Water Treatment Process System Flushing Prevent Frozen Pipes Cloudy Water Stagnant Water Concerns Lead Awareness Prevent Water Waste Employment Opportunities We're Hiring! Check out the open positions on our Employment Opportunities Page. Stay Informed Subscribe to receive news and alerts via email and SMS. Click to Subscribe Click to Unsubscribe Language Choose Language... English Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer Kinyarwanda Korean Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kyrgyz Lao Latin Latvian Lithuanian Luxembourgish Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mongolian Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Odia (Oriya) Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Scots Gaelic Serbian Sesotho Shona Sindhi Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Sundanese Swahili Swedish Tajik Tamil Tatar Telugu Thai Turkish Turkmen Ukrainian Urdu Uyghur Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Xhosa Yiddish Yoruba Zulu Translate QUICK LINKS Make a Payment Login to WebShare Report a Problem Subscribe for Alerts New Residents Terminate Service SITES OF INTEREST Water Conservation Virginia Rural Water Association Drinking Water Education CONTACTS Rapidan Service Authority P.O. Box 148 Ruckersville, VA 22968 434.985.7811 Locust Grove: 540.972.2133 Ruckersville: 434.985.7811 Contact Us ©2021 Rapidan Service Authority, VA. All rights reserved. Terms of Use Privacy Policy Accessibility Powered by MunicipalImpact.com Admin